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New city traffic lights needed -Harlequin


Stabroek News-May 27th 2005

Although the police traffic department was successful in fixing one set of traffic lights in the city recently, there are calls for them to be scrapped altogether.

“There is need for new lights in the city, modern lights,” Traffic Chief Michael Harlequin told Stabroek News when contacted on Monday.

According to Harlequin, the current set of lights at several city intersections have been in existence for several decades and have outlived their usefulness.

Many of the city traffic signals have for months been non-functional.

According to the traffic chief, police from the traffic department are responsible for enforcing the …


Lawlessness

 

Editorial-Stabroek News May 7th 2005

Usually an extremely busy intersection especially during rush hour, the Regent and Camp streets corner has become bedlam since the traffic lights stopped working, as have many others in the city. Recently however, there have been traffic policemen manning that corner at the busiest times of the day, which tempers the discourtesy that would otherwise be displayed by many drivers. 

A curious situation played out early this week, which, sadly, appeared to be the rule rather than the exception. As the traffic policeman stopped the traffic moving east-west, west-east and beckoned to those moving north-south, …