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Nibbs Estate residents frustrated with state of access road
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According to a resident of the Third District, the road conditions have resulted in damage to their vehicles, including damaged mufflers, ruptured oil tanks and flat tyres.
“You know how long we waiting for that road to fix? From the last washout flood we had…the road is so, so bad, you have to go up there slow,” the resident told VINO.
Their calls to the Public Works Department (PWD) have been falling on deaf ears since the resident accused the PWD of doing nothing despite being told of the issue. “These people have not fixed the road and it is so horrible”.
It is government’s road
Our News Centre was also told that one frustrated resident has decided to purchase materials, including concrete, to fix 8 yards of the road themselves and has asked other residents to contribute another 8 yards towards the project.
“It’s ridiculous if we have to go and pave a government road just for [us] to get past,” the resident added, stating that residents bought the land from the government; however, it is the government’s responsibility to address the road conditions and maintain it.
“Every time we ask them to help us with this road [it is] like we asking them a favour, like it’s a private road we asking them to do. It’s a government road, that’s the last place of the Nibbs Estate property that belongs to government, the road belongs to the government to be maintained,” the resident said.
Promises made
The resident also said Deputy Director of the Public Works Department (PWD) Mr Esworth Phillips has been contacted.
“Esworth has been promising me for weeks now. I calling, I’m not getting through to them,” the resident said.
PWD informed residents that the department was working on the festival ground. Upon the completion of the festival ground, they were told the department was taking care of something else and would need a few more days.
A grader was sent to do some work in another area close by which sparked hope the current road in question would be on the grader’s list of things to do, however it was not so.
“I see the grader gone, they ain’t studying us…we getting treated like dogs up there…you purchase land from government, government is supposed to maintain the road, all other ones them…is paved and well good, we still on dirt road but still you cannot come and grade our,” the resident said.
No previous knowledge of road condition
Our News Centre reached out to the PWD Deputy Director Mr Phillips but did not receive a response up to time of publication.
Meanwhile, Minister for Communications and Works Hon Kye M. Rymer (R5) said it was the first time he was hearing of the condition of the road in that part of Nibbs Estate.
Hon Rymer promised to look into the matter by contacting the relevant parties and providing our News Centre with an update.
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29 Responses to “Nibbs Estate residents frustrated with state of access road”
so we paying tax and still got to dip into we pocket again to the buy material for the roads too?
lmfao mehson people like ayo is why government could get away with anything. them dont got to fix nothing for the country them could rely on morons like you to do it free from them while they continue to rape our tax monies and ssb monies. oh boi
Zip - Zero - Zilch... Nada - Nix - Nope - Nothin'!
He's had since 2019. It must be such a tiring job.