Tuesday, July 10 2012

THE EDITOR: I must commend the Government, Mr Jack Warner, the MP for the area, the Minister of Works, the Mayor of Chaguanas and the workers of the Borough Corporation for their forward thinking in making Ramsaran Road in Chaguanas into a boulevard.

However, I am surprised that the building contractor is still using backward technology in an urban area. When you consider the length of time of inconvenience to business places situated along that road and to daily traffic by using the old method of building the pavement drain with concrete blocks, steel, cement and manual labour this boulevard project may take up to three years given our weather conditions.

This old method of building pavement drains is more appropriate to rural areas where there are less business activity and less traffic on the road. Out of curiosity I did some research and found that Spancrete Limited has precast concrete pavement drains in lengths and when placed together and cemented becomes a complete pavement and is also fitted at the top with concrete theft proof covers that can open for cleaning the drain.

By using this precast pavement on both sides of the boulevard, the work could be completed in three months as opposed to three years with less cost and less inconvenience to business places and road traffic. I think that the Government can save time and money and much inconvenience to citizens by using precast pavement drains in all urban and suburban areas throughout TT and should still use the old building method of using blocks and steel and cement in rural areas where they need to create employment and inconvenience is not a big factor.



Jeff Naipaul

Chaguanas