Neighbouring residents complain about their street

Residents of Coney Drive should keep their fingers crossed until their paved street is actually delivered, as their next door neighbours were similarly excited when they got the long awaited news that their boulevard would be paved. But after months of work on Durgeon Drive, residents there say the job was a joke. Today area representative Jose Coye agreed that he too is not satisfied with the quality of the work.

Jose Coye

“That standard that it was paved to was not really to take the heavy traffic that is going in there and out for construction.”

Ann-Marie Williams

“I am sure that if you stopped by to look at the road you will see that it’s very substandard. How do you pay for a piece of road like this?”

Jose Coye

“It’s a cost recovery project and who pays for it are really the people who buy the lots. That was one of the benefits of this project, that yes, it is subsidised very little by government if anything. Now what will happen…they are public roads and they will be used by the public. What the government may have to do eventually, is to upgrade that road. But that will be from the general revenue, that won’t be from the project.

What I would like to see happen is for us to control the dust on the road. Once we can control the dust, until when most of the construction is completed in the area, I think then we can go back to see how we can put a better road in.”

Coye told News 5 that he awarded the contract for the paving of Durgeon Drive to the Bella Vista Group and will now have the engineers from the Ministry of Works assess the quality of the work.