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 Posted - 13 Aug 2007 : 22:04:20
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Tabokoto Coastal Road
A Cause for Concern
By Yaya Dampha
The popular coastal road connection from Tabokoto to Sinchu Alhagie is now becoming impassable.
It is less than four years since this road was constructed. It is however one of the most short lived roads in the history of road construction in The Gambia.
Nowadays, drivers are finding it extremely difficult to use this road due to the ditches and pot-holes along the stretch. The ditches, which are as old as the road itself, have now reached the level of trench like Acapulco or simply called water canals. This is making travelling to the settlements along this road unbearable to drivers. Many vehicles were at one time stuck on this road to the extend that some even have water rushing into their carburators or engines causing major breakdowns to their vehicles.
It was only a year ago when the president, during a conducted tour, told the nation that this particular coastal road was there waiting for calamity. But since then, apart from arresting some of the senior officers at the Department of State for Works and Infrastructure and putting a criminal charge on the permanent secretary, nothing is done about the road.
Many drivers who spoke to our reporter showed how tired they are of this road and called on the authorities not to gloss over the road but to look deep into it.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 94/2007, 13 - 14 August 2007
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