Since the establishment of the Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, one of the largest housing developments in Guyana,
Wholesale China Jerseys, taxi drivers providing services to thousands of residents are to date without a permanent car park.This has been a sore issue for the taxi operators as well as residents since the park’s location keeps changing as developmental works around the community occur.Ironically no developments are done in relation to the construction of a car park.The temporary park is located near Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) on a small area that can only facilitate six cars maximum at one time. The number of cars providing service in that area has grown and operators are forced to park along the corner of the stretch along the East Bank Public Road while awaiting passengers.The plot of land drivers and vendors desire that is owned by M&M Snackette This has resulted in traffic congestion,
Cheap Soccer Jerseys, since as passengers disembark minibuses they are unable to step onto the corner of the road as the cars are parked there forcing buses to stop on the road while blocking traffic from traversing.Taxi operators are peeved with their current working condition. They noted that the park is in a deplorable condition and while they sometimes fill the huge potholes with sand it is not enough.One driver stated that,
NFL Jerseys Cheap Authentic, “The wear and tear is too much for us to handle. And then too when passengers come with all the sand and mud they sit in the car and dirty it and we have to feel the squeeze. If 50 people come in my car is 50 time my car dirty.”Minister of Transport and Hydraulics Robeson Benn stated,
Jerseys Cheap NFL, “We are examining a possible intervention for the area. We recognise the problem and consideration must be given to the extension of the East Bank Public Road four-lane project.”However, the drivers noted that they are only given empty promises.“For years we here and they only promising that we will get a park,
China Jerseys Wholesale, all them Ministers coming and promising us a new park but up to now no park,” a driver noted.They indicated that the ideal location for the car park would be the fenced empty lot on the right-hand side of the Diamond Scheme Access Road and hinted that the land appears to be on Government reserves.This notion has found acceptance by the illegal vendors who have been encumbering the road reserves next to the car park for years. The vendors contend that wherever the park is, vending would occur since that is where the customers are.A taxi forced to utilize the deplorable Diamond Car Park They noted that the market tarmac that was constructed almost two years now is non-operational but they do not desire to go to that location.However,
Cheap Jerseys, to their dismay the land they are eying is a transported land belonging to the owners of the popular M&M Snackette; this was confirmed by Minister of Transport and Hydraulics Robeson Benn.This is not the first time that the taxi operators have been forced out of a parking facility owing to landownership by M&M Snackette. Prior to them occupying the small plot near DDL they were forced to park on the corner of the East Bank Public Road because M&M Snackette produced legal document displacing them from the corner at the entrance of the scheme. Today an M&M Snackette is erected in that same location whilst the drivers are without a car park.
