Repairs almost complete on Tribuce Street
Yesterday we showed you a section of Tribuce Street that had been neglected for months and how it literally turned into a pond. As we reported, the Belize City Council, headed by its Works Councilor Anthony Michael, carried out immediate road and drainage repairs after we jumped on the story. The councilor promised that by today the flooded road would have been transformed into a street. This is the new Tribuce Street after it received the attention it so desperately needed. Councilor Michael says the work is almost done.
Anthony Michael, City Councilor in Charge of Works
“We should be finished with this road – just filling it, it certainly will not be paved – should be finished in the next thirty minutes or so. I must thank the residence for their patience and their understanding. When we came back we saw smiles on their face and people walking pass without having to walk through the water. We saw some kids riding their bicycles through; that alone is a satisfaction for the Belize City Council.”
Marion Ali
“Why did it have to reach so far? I mean the council doesn’t have a monitoring system where it goes around and carries out maintenance work?”
Anthony Michael
“That is indeed correct; we have our supervisors and even myself. As a matter of fact I am out of my house every morning from six o’clock just identifying certain areas that need to be fixed.”
“We have more systems that we will be putting in place so that events like this do not occur in the future. We still have some other areas that we have identified and that work will be completed tomorrow and next week we will continue.”
Marion Ali
“I also not that Tribuce Street on this section does not have any drains on the sides. What will be done to insure that this situation does not reoccur?”
Anthony Michael
“This is in the responsibility of B.M.L., Belize Maintenance Limited. I spoke to Mr. Ellis, who has been very helpful; he will have his crew through the entire Vernon Street area tomorrow.”
Marion Ali
“Councilor I note that some pot holes in Belize City are being filled with sand and gravel. This appears to be a quick fix. The next rain comes it will be washed away. Do you have any permanent plan?”
Anthony Michael
“It is not a quick fix because the hole they are so deep we cannot fill them completely with the asphalt, with the tar. So what happen is that we put in the sand and gravel as a base support and the traffic they run on it and what it does it compact the sand and gravel. In the next couple of days you will see those same pot holes being sealed with the tar so it is not a quick fix.”
Michael says after the council allocated ten loads of sand and gravel for the work, a friend provided the roller to compact the material. The repairs were carried out at a cost of around four thousand five hundred dollars.
