THE BOARDWALK REPAIRS are threatening to ruin Crop Over sales for city businesses, says a leading businessman.
He contends the traffic arrangements to accommodate refurbishment of the Wickham/Lewis Boardwalk have resulted in severe traffic congestion and long delays, and fears this might serve to turn people off from shopping in The City.
Lalu Vaswani, chairman of the Revitalisation of Bridgetown Initiative Committee – an arm of the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry – has written the relevant authorities urging them to relook how both the vehicular and pedestrian traffic are regulated into and out of The City.
“The temporary pedestrian crossing that was erected on Wharf Road by the Chamberlain Bridge has resulted in a constant flow of pedestrian traffic that is unregulated with the yellow traffic markers placed on the road to allow them to pass. . .”(SP)
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