PM again calls for patience as gov't works to improve road network

 

Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness has again called for patience as the government moves to improve the country's road network. 

 

The Prime Minister said more than half of Jamaica's 27,000 kilometres of roads are in disrepair. He noted that some of the roads, built over a century ago, will take time to fix. 

 

Dr. Holness reiterated his administration's commitment to road improvement but cautioned against unrealistic expectations. 

 

"So you cannot expect that every single bad road is going to be fixed in one decade. So I need to reorient the minds of the Jamaican citizens that you're not going to repair all the roads today or this year. It's going to take you at least a decade to repair roads that have not been repaired in 50, 60 years, some of them, or never since they were built. And what you need to look for and hold governments to account for is not what they fixed today

but what is the programme that they have put in place so that every week or every year or every month there is a consistent repairing of roads," he suggested.

 

Dr. Holness was speaking Tuesday at the handing over ceremony for the $370 million Myton Gully Drainage System Project in Old Harbour, St. Catherine.