A HEAP of rocks covering a cavity in the road at the corner of Elizabeth Avenue and Bay Street which has been left for months is angering motorists using the main downtown thoroughfare.
The rocks, which protrude into the eastbound lane of Bay Street near a pedestrian crossing by the Friendly Pharmacy Clinic, are a danger to drivers - particularly when the road was flooded by last week’s rains - and an eyesore.
“I assume they are using the rocks as a mode of warning,” one frustrated driver told The Tribune. “Both unacceptable and pathetic.”
The rubble includes rusted steel rods and sits partly on top of a metal plate over the hole in the road. Calls to the Ministry of Works about the issue last week by The Tribune went unanswered.
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Required 8 years, 6 months ago
Let's just rename it Perry Christie Boulevard, and never fix anything there at all. Solved.
MonkeeDoo 8 years, 6 months ago
This country is falling apart !
asiseeit 8 years, 6 months ago
This is on Bay St. it is not like it is hidden away. What a pathetic country the Bahamas has become, nobody thought it could get worse than the Pindling years but This crew is taking the cake.
TalRussell 8 years, 6 months ago
Comrades let me see if I got this right. A heap of rocks remained at curbside - despite neighboring business owners driving and walking by them almost daily - did nothing to remove them. I'll bet you the cash registers suffering from cavity of loss dollars but they'd rather sit back and complain like all the rest. Looks through the stores windows directly at Mr. & Mrs. Pathetic, standing so erect behinds they's cash registers.
ThisIsOurs 8 years, 6 months ago
If this were a box in the road I'd agree with you. Reminds me of the rock hill that existed on Prince Charles for MONTHS. On an evening newscast, a gentleman stated that he'd recently seen someone fly over it and almost cause a major accident. Shortly after, Brave showed up on tv to say he wasn't aware of the obstruction and was actually waiting on a report of road conditions in Nassau. So I guess when Brave gets that report, this will be taken care of. I don't know why he ever thought he could run a country.
asiseeit 8 years, 6 months ago
So Tal we are to pay taxes for this sort of thing to be taken care of but as it is not done we must hire a truck to come and do it. Fine, if I must do governments job how about I do not pay any more tax. The civil service in this country is massive and costs all Bahamians a great deal, how about a novel approach and they do their job?
TalRussell 8 years, 6 months ago
Comrades I think I nailed this thinking better than any of you. Business owners collectively pay NO income taxes on profits, so what's wrong with suggesting they start demonstrating some pro-activity to be looking after their business surroundings and the needs of communities.
It is the only way they can get back to the important tasks that all better start chipping in on, if this group of islands nation is to be restored to her glory days. We are in a total mess.
What measurable funds are they contributing towards policing?
Sickened 8 years, 6 months ago
Should we patch the hole in the road as well, or just take away the debris?
TalRussell 8 years, 6 months ago
Comrade, the ministry works can issue them merchants and other business owners/managers fresh set overalls and hard hats. Make it pinks for the ladies. Be good them experience what shoveling is likes. I say they charge them $100 plus VAT each for they's freshly washed overalls and hard hats - throw in free shovel.
asiseeit 8 years, 6 months ago
How about we also give the cruise ship passengers garbage bags when they come off the ship. They come to enjoy our environment so therefore they benefit from a clean environment, only makes sense that they contribute to keeping it clean. Or how about this, we get rid of government and let the business owners run the country, back when that was the case, we actually had a country that was clean, orderly, open for business, with jobs for everyone, sometime two jobs if you wanted. Now we have the exact opposite, so yes TAL you are onto something as it worked very well in the past when our country was run correctly!
TruthHurts 8 years, 6 months ago
"The rubble includes rusted steel rods and sits partly on top of a metal plate over the hole in the road".
SERIOUSLY!!!!! That is truly disgusting and disturbing to know that they would use anything within reach to rectify the situation. This is indicative of how the country is run on the whole. No one thinks/brainstorms anymore, they just do-whatever! The first thing that comes to mind without ever thinking of further down the road. Piece of sh#@!
FYI: And if it were such a serious issue shouldn't something like this be reported to the public so that folks are fully aware of circumstances and the action that is being taken in regards to the pile?
Cobalt 8 years, 6 months ago
What are these people talking about!?!?! What did they expect???? Didn't they vote for the "do nothing" PLP????
When Hubert Ingraham and the FNM were conducting road works to improve the islands, the people complained!!! Now the PLP is in power and they contribute NOTHING to the improvement of road works, and the people are still complaining!!!! What the hell do y'all Bahamian people want!!!!!
Yinna shut ya stink mouth!!! Yall gettin just what ya vote for!!!!
B_I_D___ 8 years, 6 months ago
TAL...I don't think you are understanding the situation...the rubble is there to fill a massive pot hole that is infringing on a manhole...if the rubble was not there to divert you around it, you'd tag the pothole and possibly flip up that metal cover on the manhole and cause major damage. Ministry of Works needs to come out there and shore up the manhole cover and fix the pothole. But somehow this is a business owners problem to take the initiative to fix? I'm confused.
Sickened 8 years, 6 months ago
so is Tal.
asiseeit 8 years, 6 months ago
No TAL is correct, we need to get rid of the PLP and the FNM and let the business owners run the country. Back in the day when this was the case we had a country that was first class, a tourist mecca, was clean, orderly, with very little crime. Lets get rid of these soul sucking politicians and replace them with business owners, it can't be any worse than what we have now!
MonkeeDoo 8 years, 6 months ago
We need to beg the Crown to take us back and lockup all of the Politicians with any evidence of tiefin or conflict of interest since Independence. One a Pings kids could do plenty time for him. The sins of the father etc.
MonkeeDoo 8 years, 6 months ago
Tal: This is another case of people investing a boatload of their own money in a venture that will likely never be a success. Just because of slack Government.
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