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Traffic lights signal hope

Stabroek News-August 26th 2005

About a year ago Stabroek Business got a call from a young man proposing to install new traffic lights in the city.As anyone can testify, almost every traffic light in Georgetown has been out of order and those that were fixed, quickly broke. To drive through junctions is to play a guessing game and at times a lethal game of bluff as the drivers who ended up killing destitute Petal Blair, learnt on Sunday night.     

The police briefly fixed the lights on Camp and Lamaha Sts last month but these conked out a few days later. …


Green is for go -Company finally asked to install test traffic light

 

Stabroek News-August 12th 2005

 

Many motorists must have been surprised to find a traffic light actually working at the corner of Avenue of the Republic and Regent Street.They may be even more surprised to find that it has continued to work since being installed last Wednesday by Guyana Electrical Consultants and Association(GECA),a private company that has been haranguing the police department for almost a year to give them a chance at showing what they can do. 
The GECA which was registered in 2003 began working on the concept of refurbishing traffic lights tailored for local use …


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