The maintenance team at the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) considerably slowed traffic crossing the bridge yesterday morning as they set to work repairing a connecting end-post, which had broken after years of wear and tear.The connecting end-post broke at approximately 7:30 hours yesterday morning, and the staffers of the DHB maintenance crew effected emergency repairs, supposedly to hold it together until there is a replacement.The connecting end-post is one of the mechanisms that link one span of the DHB to another.The replacement of the end-post is scheduled to take place at approximately 5:30 hours this morning,
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