PNM is a traffic disaster

Forty years to fail to deliver a single overpass on the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway. One year to fail to deliver on a promised single extra lane just one kilometre long, on Wrightson Road, west from the bottom of St Vincent Street, Port-of-Spain.

Thirty years to fail to deliver on the highway extension from La Romaine to Point Fortin. Twenty years to fail to deliver a San Fernando to Mayaro highway. Thirty years to fail to comprehensively repair and upgrade the Toco Road. Thirty-five years to fail to deliver on a paid-for-highway from Goodwood Park to Chaguanas.

Fifteen years to fail to convert the road linking Point Lisas and the highway, into four lanes. Fifty years to fail to deliver any bypass or beltway around congested Sangre Grande. Fifty years to fail to deliver comprehensive widening of the North Coast Road to Maracas Bay. Fifty years to fail to convert the Cocal into a wider, safer roadway. Fifty years to fail to widen and modernise the road to Erin.

Fifty years to fail to introduce radical traffic flows in Port-of-Spain to meet radically severe congestion, even though this can be done at the stroke of a pen! Forty years to fail to deliver one-way status to the Eastern Main Road, and the Priority Bus Route. Fifty years to fail to deliver comprehensive rural roads’ improvement. Twenty-five years (and counting!) to fail to deliver rapid transit — except as a convenient election distraction.

Over 500 years of cumulative failures to deliver adequate road traffic improvements to suffering, disregarded districts, sectors, and sufferers.

What they never fail to deliver is a bunch of suited, pompous satraps with high-style lives, but abysmally low management performance skills. Their entire raison d’etre is power.

The People’s National Movement is a traffic disaster to Trinidad and Tobago. The symbol of the party is aptly, the balisier, a plant of the wilderness where they are determined to keep us. Failure to perform, and failure to deliver, are the worst and most insidious forms of corruption.

LLOYD CARTAR

Westmoorings