The Editor, Sir:

Permit me through your medium to ask the authorities the following questions as it relates to the North Coast Highway on the eastern side of the island.

1. Why is it not bypassing the town of Annotto Bay whose main road is so narrow that it amounts to a one-way for traffic with vehicles parked on one side of the road.

2. Why is it not bypassing the mountainous and winding Black Hill by going by the coast from Orange Bay to Hope Bay where the abandoned rail line is?

I sought answers to these questions from the commencement of the North Coast Highway but got no response.

Those of us who use the roads in the east had hoped that the highway would have commenced simultaneously in the east and west and meet in the centre. This should have reduced the time and hopefully construction cost.

Now we see what is happening in the east, we feel short-changed.

I am, etc.,

HERON DALE

Port Antonio