THE City Engineer Department must be congratulated for the swift action it took to remove the nuisance caused by building materials stored on a Queenstown council parapet.

However, I venture to suggest that the Council should make it a policy to remove the much greater nuisances created around the ‘Garden City’ to the annoyance of residents. I catalogue hereunder the following nuisance sites which are also traffic hindrances:

Alberttown: On the north eastern corner of Light and Fourth Streets, vehicles have been heaped up and stored there for years.

Queenstown: On the south eastern corner of Peter Rose and Laluni Streets, a security company parks several minibuses on the City Council’s parapet outside its offices from Laluni Street for half the block going south all day and night (24×7). Going further south in Peter Rose Street, immediately after the minibuses parked at the security operation, a used car vendor overloads the Council’s parapet with used vehicles for sale.

Cummingsburg: At Camp Street and the southern carriage way of Croal Street, a spare parts dealer carries on a ‘warehouse’ on the Council’s northern parapet of Croal Street, storing and repairing trucks and other mining equipment; flat bed trailers and as I write there are dozens of 12” diameter by approximately 12 feet long steel pipes on the parapet west of Camp Street and Croal Streets. On the northern parapet of Croal Street there is flat bed trailers parked for several weeks.

Bourda: At the south western corner of Charlotte and Oronoque Streets, the entire S.W. parapet at the corner is enclosed with 10’ high zinc sheets so close to the west side of the roadway in Charlotte Street at the corner that it is a hindrance to vehicles travelling alongside the zinc fence in Charlotte and Oronoque Streets creating a blind corner at Charlotte and Oronoque Streets. This danger has been existing for over the past three years.

The Traffic Department and the City Council should feel guilty for permitting such a danger to exist on busy city streets for so long.

Just west of Oronoque Street in Robb Street, there are two auto cycle shops on opposite sides of the road each displaying their motorcycles on the parapets right up to the edge of the road. A motorist is hindered if he has to manoeuvre to avoid a collision.
DEODAT PERSAUD