The following pictures and video depict ongoing work to build a bypass at Salisbury following a road failure on the Edward Oliver Le blanc Highway.
IN PICTURES: Construction of the Salisbury bypass
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The biggest joke and absolute disappointment is DOMINICANS WILL STILL VOTE IN DLP ALL OVER AGAIN. DESPITE!!! the falling of the country. From an international level to a domestic level we taking blows all around, courtesy, Roosvelt and his DLP. Then again is just Roosevelt because those useless ministers and PS cannot do nothing without his say so.
When your road network is “Made by China🇨🇳 ”.
It’s a shame what forced the government to build a bypass in a dry place like Bawi that doesn’t get much rain like other parts of Dominica and the place is not swampy. Interestingly see how a little overnight shower exposed Skerrit and his one China policy.
It happened just a few days before world creole festival, when a lot of those diasporas usually come down to vote Skerrit. The coverup PM that usually covers his failure had no time to cover this time.
The entire west coast road that Skerrit referred to as EO Leblanc highway has been badly compromised not by Erika or Maria but by old, poor, cheap labor that Skerrit and China offer. It’s a road without drainage, culverts are not cleaned so water could flow freely and in most cases 98% of culverts they met were blocked with tarnish and Baba green. So now water digging holes that looking like tunnels and that’s what forced them to build bypass. That’s another reason Skerrit must go because he is a curse and the work of his hands is…
you have to remember that the original section of the road collapsed because the dry riverbed became a torrent and undercut a big part of the highway. The same contractor was paid twice to repair the section, blocked it the first time and it collapsed and was paid again, and, instead of building a culvert for future deluges, chose to backfill and block. Hardly surprising that this section has collapsed again. Water will find a way downhill one way or another. I strongly recommend finding a different contractor to make proper repairs using both a civil and wastewater engineer to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
I’ve stated umpteen times before that Dominica needs a new network of roads. A visionary government would have done this eons ago.
This specific infrastructure will hopefully create many well needed LOCAL jobs in the construction sector. Create new businesses and easy access to inaccessible new locations around the island. Once well constructed and well fortified with proper drainage, safety should not be a major concern while commuting as it is right now.
As all right thinking Dominicans will attest, this two decades old mal-administration primary focus, is on winning elections by any illicit means necessary, and feasting on the treasury.
Vehicles are getting stuck while pasisng in the bypass🤬
All you better have a 4×4 with good tires or a small boat. Only in Dominica!
…but they know how to do sewo. It’s the only way to forget the rampant corruption. The CM know this too!
Whose farm and land they just dash through? This is a government with a very bad record for paying people for their land. While giving away CBI houses and cool-out money to Labour party supporters, they still owing Laudat people for Geothermal land grab! Skerrit you run tings but is backwards you running Dominica!
It is fortunate that the surrounding land at Salisbury can accommodate a bypass.
When the worst happens at Antrim (not if, but when) a bypass is not an option.
There was a misguided attempt to make one some years ago by cutting a road on a higher level. Mercifully, the work was halted before bringing down the whole hillside.
so you dun know that bypass going to be temporarily permanent , whose land they burst through there, I hope the government paying them an access fee
When we used Dense Shillingford’s land to continue along the west coast after the Macoucherie Bridge was damaged, did that bypass become “temporarily permanent?”
Garsan, resist the orgasmic urge to bray. Stop embarrassing your parents and your relatives!
Remember Dense had to block the bridge to get his money?