It is an indisputable fact that the motor road from the densely populated Community of Vai Town towards St. Paul Bridge on Bushrod Island, at the moment, represents nothing less than a perilous, and /or death-defying route for citizens, residents and business people.
Others who regularly use the road include but not limited to thousands of ordinary and poor market women, girls and other teenagers who often assemble in front of various business houses along the route to purchase numerous wholesale goods for retail purposes.
Driving along that road in any vehicles such as commercial buses, taxicabs, as well as motorbikes and tricycles is like risking the precious lives of passengers or occupants of such vehicles including students, public and private sector workers- doctors, nurses, teachers, lawyers, security personnel and other professionals.
Even private jeeps, owned and operated by a handful of individuals who consider themselves as aristocrats as well as trucks, tankers, and other lorries belonging to some of the country’s business tycoons are of no exception to problems arising from the delipidated state of the Vai Town-St. Paul Bridge Road corridors.
Without any exaggeration, the Via Town- St. Paul Bridge Road corridor has been effectively awash by deep, multiple, and life-threatening potholes, damaged drainages, among others.
Whenever rain falls, whether during the day or night hours, the road becomes almost like a ‘hell’ for drivers, passengers and pedestrians.
For every rainfall, it triggers massive flooding along the road as vehicles are often broken-down owing to the severe damages being caused to their essential parts.
The frequent flooding and erosion, coupled with other dreadful conditions of the road, according to many drivers, often disabled the effectiveness and efficiency of the gas/diesel and mechanical powers of their vehicles.
We need not mention the tormenting and upsetting traffic chaos that often characterized the movements of vehicles and pedestrians along that risky route.
This is why, we, at The INDEPENDENT Newspaper, are calling on the Government of Liberia (GoL), through the Ministry of Public Works to urgently reconstruct the Vai Town-St. Paul Bridge road corridor which now poses serious threats to traffic and public safety.
We, as a government and Nation, must not wait until, God forbid, the unexpected negative thing happen to any precious human life before taking the necessary and appropriate road improvement measures.
In the governance of the country, we must remain proactive, cultivate and nurture an added sense of civilization by always doing what is right, and expected of any civilized and people-centered Government, as diametrically opposed to always taking reactionary corrective measures after unwanted damages had been caused as it has happened in most cases in yesteryears.
A Hint to The Wise is Sufficient
