2013-04-10 Request for Installation of Traffic Lights and of Pedestrian Crossings

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Wednesday April 10, 2013

The Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Transports and Works
Pine East-West Boulevard
St. Michael

Dear Sir,

Re: Request for Installation of Traffic Lights and of Pedestrian Crossings by Highway 2A / Westmoreland / Waterhall Junction and Along Sion Hill / Upper Carlton / Bakers Sections of Highway 2A Respectively

I write this letter on behalf of my constituents in Westmoreland, Sion Hill, Water Hall, Upper Carlton in Saint James and Bakers in Saint Peter.

Many of my constituents who reside in these areas have expressed grave concern on the following issues:-

1) The need for traffic lights to be installed and be operated at the Highway 2A / Westmoreland / Waterhall junction;
2) The need for pedestrian crossings further north of that junction along Highway 2A in the Upper Carlton, Sion Hill and Bakers Road.

In the first instance, vehicular traffic emerging from Westmoreland unto Highway 2A or attempting to go straight across the highway to Waterhall / Apes Hill has tremendous difficulty in so doing during peak hour traffic periods. This is also the case where vehicular traffic emerging from Waterhall / Apes Hill attempts to turn onto Highway 2A or travel west across the highway into Westmoreland.

Consequently, more vehicular accidents occur at this junction that ought to be the case.

In the second instance, it is of prime significance that this area is quite heavily populated and comprises a primary school, Gordon Greenidge Primary School, and a nursery, St. Boniface Nursery. Both young children going to school and adults traversing the highway to, for example, go to the bus stops have great difficulty in so doing, particularly during peak-hours.

I, therefore, write kindly requesting your Ministry to address these areas the very near and foreseeable future to the benefits of the affected residents.

I thank you in advance for you co-operation on these matters.

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Yours faithfully,
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Edmund G. Hinkson, M.P.
Member of Parliament – St. James North

CC. The Hon. Mr. Michael A. Lashley, M.P., Minister of Transport and Works
Ministry of Transport and Works

Mr. Virgil Knight
Chief Technical Officer
Ministry of Transport and Works

Mr. Randolph Outram
Director
Rural Development Commission

Mrs. Sonia Thompson-Alleyne
Chairperson
St. James North Constituency Council

The Residents of Saint James North

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Edmund "Eddie" Hinkson is an attorney-at-law residing in Waterhall Terrace, St. James. The husband of Beverly and father of Erica and Gregory, he has an outstanding record as a community leader. He has been a member of the Lions Club of Bridgetown for the past 24 years and has the honours of being named the Best President of the Lions Clubs in the Caribbean District 60B and of serving as the Lions Clubs Leader of Barbados. Eddie has been a member of the Advisory Board of Directors of the Salvation Army for the past 5 years. He has also served as a member of the Council of St. Johns Ambulance Association, the Association of the Blind and Deaf and of the Council for the Disabled. Eddie has been a sub-committee chairman of the Small Business Association and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. A member of the Lawn Tennis Association and the Paragon Tennis Club, he has sponsored cricket, football and netball tournaments, provided prizes at school speech days, assisted churches with outreach and mentorship programmes, provided food vouchers to needy persons and helped in finding solutions to constituency issues relating to land. In government, he served as Chairman of the National Conservation Commission and the Severance Payments Tribunal, Deputy Chairman of the National Housing Corporation, the National Advisory Committee on Disabilities and the Building Advisory Committee as well as a Director of the National Cultural Foundation, a Member of Consumer Claims Tribunal, Income Tax Appeal Board and the Harrison College Board of Management. Internationally, Edmund is an officer of the International Bar Association, a member of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association and a member of International Who’s Who of Professionals.