MINISTRY of Public Works officials have promised to effect repairs to the access road to the University of Guyana (UG) and Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) from next Thursday.

Road Engineer Lawrence Mentin disclosed that works are scheduled for next week, possibly commencing from Thursday and proceeding until Sunday, depending on the state of the weather.

This road is currently in a deplorable state, with enormous potholes that cause damage to vehicles traversing it; and the current rainy weather makes it difficult for pedestrians to discern the full extent and depth of potholes

when water has settled on the road after a heavy downpour.

Because it is the access road to the campuses of the two most important institutions of tertiary education, pedestrian and vehicular traffic on the road is mostly hectic.

Mr. Mentin noted that the initiative had been taken some time ago to repair this road after pipelines had been laid under a pavement that stretches along the railway embankment to the UG entrance. The pipelines had been laid to improve drainage along the road, but this seemed to have failed.

The Works Ministry has since been merely “surfacing” the road, the engineer said, but is now prepared to fully rehabilitate same, thus the extant woeful condition would soon cease to exist.

Mentin also assured that the Works Ministry is looking at the soggy conditions existing on the road constituting the major turn in the driveway on the UG campus. He said the Works Ministry is awaiting finalization of a contact with UG officials before commencing to renovate this passageway.

That project would tremendously benefit the entire communities of Cummings Lodge and Industry, besides those of UG and CPCE.

(By Shivanie Sugrim)