WORK on the Sussex Street Bridge is expected to be completed within a week’s time, according to contractor Surjpaul Sukhdeo, in a telephone interview with the Guyana Chronicle yesterday. According to Sukhdeo, his team began work on the bridge last Wednesday after being awarded the contact.

He said the bridge was a steel structure covered with concerte slabs and it was bitumen coated; and judging from the damage, it was over-used and the pot hole developed.
Sukhdeo said, while authorities are aware that the pot hole on the road could have been the main cause for many of the accidents, drivers also need to me more careful when using the roadways.

He added that he was the contractor who did repairs to bridge rails in several areas in the city, including La Penitence areas, and it is only eight months now since rails of those bridges were repaired. He said a bridge on Lamaha Street was recently rehabilitated and rails were installed, and soon after they were damaged by reckless drivers.

Angry residents of North East La Penitence and contiguous areas recently blocked the Sussex Street Bridge with wood and burnt tyres along with other materials, after a car with three occupants careened off the bridge and into the canal that runs east along Cemetery Road.

A 16-year-old boy died in this accident. There were two other serious accidents over the past few months.
According to residents in the area, the bridge over the Sussex Street canal has been without a rail for the past three years.