Minister for Public Works, Miriam Blanchard, has said that a temporary bypass will be constructed in Cabanis for the benefit of Roseau Valley villagers, following a major collapse of a road in the area.
The road collapse has affected communities such as Fond Canie, Trafalgar and Laudat.
Speaking after a delegation led by the Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit visited the area, Blanchard stated that the “government will do all in its power to seek a speedy solution to the situation at Cabanis.”
“We have had to direct all traffic for the Valley through the Wotten Waven area, unfortunately there is a lot of ongoing construction in that area at this time, so what the government has done, in the interest of making it easier for persons who reside and who visit that area, is to immediately move forward with the evaluation of a bypass area in the same Cabanis area,” she said.
She said work is set to begin on the realignment of the collapsed road.
In addition to this, Blanchard also highlighted that the government will be taking further steps to enhance the condition of the roads leading to Wotten Waven.
“In light of the ongoing works in the Wotten Waven area, a delegation again led by myself, the Permanent Secretary and the Chief Technical Officer, visited the area and had discussions with the local contractors to see how we can assist in moving that project forward,” Blanchard stated.
Traffic issues faced not only by local drivers, but also tourists, were brought to attention of the team, and so, collaborative efforts between the Ministry of Tourism and Urban Development, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry for Public Works are aimed at developing a better form of traffic management .
Police authorities and the previously mentioned ministries are working closely to ensure flow of traffic especially during the peak hours ranging from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.
It is sad to see Mr. Johnson in the middle of this madness. A briliant engineer with his hands tied behind his back.
temporary will become permanent
You mean a Tem-permanent By pass right?
Just do the work get over with it stop wasting tax payers money
So if Skerrit don’t visit first hand nothing gets done?
Will De extinguished delegation visit De marigot sea wall area to?
While you at it take a drive to rosalie.
Oh yes and the BALM feeder roads?
Skerrit, like myself, don’t have much faith in Miss Blanchard at minister of works.
He has no confidence in his ministers!
Temporary? Haven’t sold enough passports yet?
Are Dominicsna that blind?? Look at the quality of the road – its paper thin with no underlying foundation built on a muddy cliff . Are we surprised? Dominica is a rain forest island – all these poorly built roads by foriegn engineers will fail.. SHAME on the likes of Kendall Johnson well trained and brilliant minds who allow this crap to happen in DA
What brilliance are you talking about? All these so called “Brilliant People” do absolutely for Dominica. Any engineer with common sense will first employ a geologist to assist when constructing these roads and a historian like Dr. Honychurch who has real historical knowledge about these areas, including soil and rock formation. This type of information is never used in constructing these roads. Brilliance means interpreting historical and current information about a particular area and making an informed decision. This book smart and foreign trained crap means absolutely nothing, when one examines the end result in detail.
Thanks this Cabanis road makes a difference, Use to pay $2.50 to Fondcanie,now i’m paying $5.00
These people and vehicles close to the edge of that slide was a potential danger. Look st this guy right on the edge. That remaining slope was still saturated and does not look very stable. Take extra precaution fellow Dominicans. Sometimes you like to be too much in the action. You don’t want to be buried under soil. It is on average 2 timea the weight of water.
Mr. P.M, the road that keeps dropping in Antrim needs serious attention too. People cannot get duty free, has to be paying compulsory road maintenance fees and can’t get their roads repaired? My shocks are bad, my tires are bad and I’ve only been traveling this route for six months. Mr. P.M and your colleagues, DO SOMETHING!!!!
Alas, the situation at Antrim is virtually insoluble. It stems from flawed consultancy advice that resulted in the dumping of millions tons of spoil from Red Gully on sensitive land.
The way things are going, rather than spending more on motor vehicle repairs, you’d be better off investing in a donkey.