WITH Guyana’s growing population, traffic congestion has become a dire issue across the country. The roads are often ‘clogged’ with vehicles, leading to slow-moving traffic and long wait times during peak hours, but now commuters can breathe a sigh of relief as Pixels Guyana Inc. launched two additional live traffic cameras on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD).

Commuters can now plan their day around heavy traffic by logging onto the company’s website, Facebook page or download the PixelsGy App on Google Play Store or App Store to view live footage at no cost at any hour. The two cameras are now installed at the University of Guyana (UG) junction and the Mon Repos market intersection.

The company currently has 11 traffic cameras mounted in areas where traffic congestion is more problematic such as Diamond, EBD, the walkways at Houston, the Demerara Harbour Bridge, Mandela Avenue, DSL intersection, the railway embankment in the vicinity of Sheriff Street and across the Demerara river, there is coverage at the western junction at Schoonord, West Bank Demerara (WBD), and at Vreed-en-Hoop, (West Coast Demerara (WCD).

Pixels Guyana Inc.’s owner, Leonard Gildarie said that the initiative to launch live cameras across the country is part of his company’s corporate social responsibility project and it has proven to be a useful and critical tool to ease congestion on the busiest roadways of the country since commuters can now view the live cameras and decide whether to delay or divert their journey.
Gildarie explained that not only are the cameras beneficial to citizens but the Guyana Police Force has been taking full advantage of this initiative since the cameras have the capacity to store footage for a period of 24 to 48 hours.

“We have been helping the police by giving them footage of accidents and also citizens have been reaching out to us for footage.”
He added, “Initially, we installed the cameras to view our billboards but then we found persons were reaching out to us for footage of accidents; that’s when we decided to add more cameras and allow persons to have access to aid in their daily commute.”

The cameras are powered by E-Networks’ internet service for free and the installation is coordinated with input from the government, the Ministry of Public Works and the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL).
For last month alone, Gildarie said that seven million viewers logged onto the website. Plans are currently underway to add more live traffic cameras along the recently constructed EBD highways.