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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Welcome to Travel and the Roads once again and we wish to bring to you first hand eye witness information on traveling on our roads (land), sea and air as journeyed by Market Beat anchorman. We wish to report on breaches in health and safety rules, conditions of our carriers be it ferries, cars or otherwise, fare variations, anti social behaviours among others.
This week I wish to bring to your attention some very alarming and indeed some social malfunctioning as far as public offices are concern and hope we get some redress to the issues we raise here the sooner the better as tomorrow may be too late and remember life cannot be recreated nor can it be substituted.
Is the Denton Bridge Check Point fading away?
I have observed for some time now that the rigorous checks on vehicles and other carriers that used to take place at the Denton Bridge are now very lax and almost at the point of non-existent. Vehicles come and pass without even stopping then unto the bridge then off to Banjul or off to Serrekunda depending where the vehicle is heading.
The Denton Bridge Check Point is a very good source of checks and it goes a long way in subsidizing our general national security network. Banjul is our capital city despite not much to show of it and I think the Local Councils especially BCC should be pulling their weights to register more projects and developmental milestones on a frequent basis and I cannot fathom why they cannot raise their revenue base at a time when the economy is doing well and Banjul is selling like hot cakes.
The Denton Bridge Check point also serves as a speed limit check and speed control for our numerous reckless drivers. Most of these drivers sometimes clock above 110km/ hr at the very risky survival of their passengers if something goes wrong or an animal crosses the road. How can you, oh! How could you board a mad driver’s van plying at 120km/hr and you dear keep quiet? You keeping quiet and signing your own death certificate heading not to Banjul or Serrekunda but to the land of the dead. I wish Banjul-Serrekunda passengers take time and start speaking to those mad drivers and if the need be talk to police at Denton Bridge about their abuse of speed limits and the need for a warning and possible court suit for persistent offenders.
Please stand up for your rights as it is your right for your driver to behave responsibly and drive carefully as ‘the life you save may be your own’ as was depicted way back when on a sign board along the now Serrekunda-Bakau-Highway before what is now commonly know as Sabena Junction. As a people, lots of drivers drew unimaginable inspiration from that sign board and why not replica it on most dodgy points along the Banjul- Serrekunda Highway?
Overall the glory and efficiency of the Denton Bridge Check Point must to restored and revived as this nation is too small and too fragile to sleep on its security needs and requirements. We as Gambians need the security forces to check what goes in and out of Banjul City, the seat of Government and I also do hope that controlling and observing the speed limits of drivers is also paramount.
Remember, a slow down and subsequent stopping can slow a driver for the entire route between Banjul and Serrekunda. When a driver stops at Denton Bridge before he picks up top speed again he is already in Old Jeshwang thereby making him unable to abuse the speed and there by saving lives and properties. Please bring back the robust and rigorous checks at Denton Bridge for National Security reasons and also stopping drivers from killing people. I hope someone with some political clout is reading. Thank you. We have more install for you next week on the ferries and some wicked discoveries on the Barra- Chamen Kerr Bai Dam/ NduGu Kebbeh route.
This week I wish to bring to your attention some very alarming and indeed some social malfunctioning as far as public offices are concern and hope we get some redress to the issues we raise here the sooner the better as tomorrow may be too late and remember life cannot be recreated nor can it be substituted.
Is the Denton Bridge Check Point fading away?
I have observed for some time now that the rigorous checks on vehicles and other carriers that used to take place at the Denton Bridge are now very lax and almost at the point of non-existent. Vehicles come and pass without even stopping then unto the bridge then off to Banjul or off to Serrekunda depending where the vehicle is heading.
The Denton Bridge Check Point is a very good source of checks and it goes a long way in subsidizing our general national security network. Banjul is our capital city despite not much to show of it and I think the Local Councils especially BCC should be pulling their weights to register more projects and developmental milestones on a frequent basis and I cannot fathom why they cannot raise their revenue base at a time when the economy is doing well and Banjul is selling like hot cakes.
The Denton Bridge Check point also serves as a speed limit check and speed control for our numerous reckless drivers. Most of these drivers sometimes clock above 110km/ hr at the very risky survival of their passengers if something goes wrong or an animal crosses the road. How can you, oh! How could you board a mad driver’s van plying at 120km/hr and you dear keep quiet? You keeping quiet and signing your own death certificate heading not to Banjul or Serrekunda but to the land of the dead. I wish Banjul-Serrekunda passengers take time and start speaking to those mad drivers and if the need be talk to police at Denton Bridge about their abuse of speed limits and the need for a warning and possible court suit for persistent offenders.
Please stand up for your rights as it is your right for your driver to behave responsibly and drive carefully as ‘the life you save may be your own’ as was depicted way back when on a sign board along the now Serrekunda-Bakau-Highway before what is now commonly know as Sabena Junction. As a people, lots of drivers drew unimaginable inspiration from that sign board and why not replica it on most dodgy points along the Banjul- Serrekunda Highway?
Overall the glory and efficiency of the Denton Bridge Check Point must to restored and revived as this nation is too small and too fragile to sleep on its security needs and requirements. We as Gambians need the security forces to check what goes in and out of Banjul City, the seat of Government and I also do hope that controlling and observing the speed limits of drivers is also paramount.
Remember, a slow down and subsequent stopping can slow a driver for the entire route between Banjul and Serrekunda. When a driver stops at Denton Bridge before he picks up top speed again he is already in Old Jeshwang thereby making him unable to abuse the speed and there by saving lives and properties. Please bring back the robust and rigorous checks at Denton Bridge for National Security reasons and also stopping drivers from killing people. I hope someone with some political clout is reading. Thank you. We have more install for you next week on the ferries and some wicked discoveries on the Barra- Chamen Kerr Bai Dam/ NduGu Kebbeh route.
Author: DO
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