Residents displeased with condition of major road

There are growing concerns among users of the Bamboo Corner road in St Catherine, which links the Harkers Hall main road to Glengoffe corridor.

A recent visit to the community revealed gaping potholes, some of them filled with inches of murky water. A motorist expressed his concerns about the heavily used roadway.

"This is the nasty road conditions we have to work with everyday," Melbourne Scott said." For years the roads have been like this and despite a little patching sometime ago, this is how rugged it gets."

The trip that would take 20 minutes from Bog Walk to Glengoffe takes motorists almost an hour, due to the road surface conditions.

"Sometimes I just feel like park the car and stop using this (the road), as a parts mi a work fah," Bentley Granville said. "When is not the rock and pinion, a shocks, wheel bearings are other parts damage by the deep hole dem."

Residents of rural communities including Harkers Hall, Glengoffe and Cassava River use the road daily, THE STAR was told.

''We have clinic, schools, post office and police station in the area. If there is an emergency, nothing can get in or out of the place fast enough. So, the work is urgently required to address the problem," said Granville.

Councillor Roogae Kirlew, of the Mount Industry division of the St Catherine Municipal Corporation, agreed that repair work is needed, but said that while he has been making representation, funding is required. Fellow councillor, Neil Powell of the Above Rocks division, said the road has been like that for years.

"I have been here (in the division) for five years and it has been that way. As a councillor, I will continue to make representation for work to be done," Powell said.