The Editor, Sir:

I have reported on behalf of all citizens of Farringdon Drive and Farringdo off Jacks Hill Road, the deplorable condition of our roads. The Water Commission has also destroyed some of this road in repairing a water pipe and left the road in a dangerous condition. Marl is left so high they have created a sleeping policeman.

We have had to put up with this for too many months now and I wonder if we were to stop paying our taxes if it would make any difference, as even as we pay them now, we have to drive every day, dodging craters and broken-away roadways. Are we waiting on the next hurricane season to blame it on the rain?

This has destroyed most of the front-end parts of our cars and has also caused several near-accidents; most times you have to decide whether you are to swerve from a hole or from a car.

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Please, Mr Minister or Mr Prime Minister, take a drive up here and see what we have to drive on every day. I am sure that you will agree that this cannot be the direction of your new government.

Do we have to block the roads in order to have them fixed? This cannot be the way to go and I am sure that you have a plan for Jamaica, as, if we are to increase our tourist arrivals, we must first have pride in what we drive on and how our country looks; not just on the highways.

Are we to spend our own money fixing these roads? It's bad enough that we have to pay GCT on the parts that we have to change every few months, when we drop into one of these huge holes. This was the same tax that we pay to have the roads fixed. Did the tax also drop into the hole?

Soon to be without a car.

I am, etc.,

PETER SHOUCAIR