‘We like it so!’

THE EDITOR: Most people don’t know it but a 10-storey Customs and Excise headquarters building will shortly be erected on Ajax Street. Now Ajax Street faces Dock Road in Port-of-Spain. This will certainly add to the traffic pressure on Wrightson Road as it will coincide with the $1.8 billion dock expansion. That isn’t all! A conference centre and a really modern hotel are also planned for the dock. This will increase even more traffic jams that a smiling government minister said will be solved by building a seafront roadway. Okay! Then where will ships dock?

Interchanges and overhead roads are solutions, but the current government does not want them, God alone knows why, because interchanges and overhead roads are used in all developed countries. Maybe we do not want to become a developed country. The authorities seem to be content with time-wasting traffic gridlocks and flat-line road systems that never need elevating, replacing or expanding — barring a bit of tokenism in Diego, and Sando. Enjoy the flat-line country and its 18th Century roadways! Clearly, we like it so!

JOSEPH KRUPP
St Augustine