RESIDENTS of Lima Sands, Mainstay/Whyaka and Tapakuma also want the Ministry of Public Works to do maintenance work on two large wooden bridges across the main Red Lock irrigation canal. Some of them told the Guyana Chronicle that the structures, used also by farmers and loggers and tourists, to get to Mainstay/Whyaka and Tapakuma, are on the verge of collapsing.
Having been built some 40 years ago, the overpasses are traversed regularly by heavy duty vehicles that transport logs, fuel to Dawa Pump Station at Tapakuma and white sand from the Mainstay sandpit.
Meanwhile, the Regional Administration of Region Two (Pomeroon/Supenaam) has announced that the Ministry of Transport and Hydraulics will be constructing two new bridges to link Hampton Court and La Resource to the Essequibo Coast Public Road.
They will replace those currently in use which have deteriorated badly and need urgent repairs.
At the same time, the Amerindian community of Capoey is asking that the roadway to access it, from the Essequibo Coast Public Road, be upgraded.
The route leads to Capoey Lake and commuters are finding it very difficult to travel along it.
With the $75M first phase of the Mainstay Road completed, other sections, further along, need attention, following consistent rainfall that has left many large potholes over which mini-buses, among other vehicles, must drive.
The finished part of the new roadway has been asphalted.