BASILON STREET BLASTS TTEC, FLOW & WASA

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WASA, T&TEC and even FLOW are coming in for a tongue-lashing.. from Basilon Street residents, who are facing infrastructural issues.. which they believe could have and should have been rectified.. months ago. TV6 visited the Port of Spain community today and spoke with the residents.

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00:00Baselon Street residents say their problems came to a head back in June

00:04when WASA came to the area to fix a sewage issue. However, they feel as though

00:09more harm was done than good.

00:11So they dug up the road and they fixed the sewer and they fixed the sewer.

00:18When they fixed it, since they fixed it, the road has been in this condition.

00:23They covered it with some steel thing. They said they're coming back. They have a contractor

00:26will be coming here in two weeks' time and fix it. Nothing has been done since June month and now.

00:32There's a big hole in the middle of the road. They cover it with those iron sheets that you'll

00:35see on the ground. When the vehicles drive over that, you cannot sleep.

00:39I haven't got a good night's sleep for maybe over three months now.

00:46But you cannot sleep. You hear the noises. You could hear the noises. You see a car driving

00:50slow. That is one car. This is a busy street. All taxis take this route to go to the hospital.

00:56They say the patchwork has also been causing damage to their vehicles,

01:00with some of them already counting their losses.

01:03Yesterday evening, when we come back home from hospital and we're reversing in,

01:08the car tire burst from this iron thing here. And it's months now we're calling and reporting and

01:13only saying we had to wait.

01:15The residents are simultaneously contending with a compromised TNT pole,

01:20which they say was also damaged by WASA personnel a few months ago.

01:25Since the bouncer said it was coming, they called. And apparently, like,

01:29Flo came and watched. And they said they can't do anything because of the wires on the pole.

01:33We called TNT. TNT is saying the same thing. So it's on left and right, back and forth,

01:37who is to do what, what is to do what. But they are not watching the poles. They don't want it to

01:40fall. When it falls, it falls on the house. My house is next door. It could also get damaged.

01:46There are people passing here and afraid to park their car there because they don't want to take

01:49the risks of parking the car and the pole falling on the vehicle. And it's too long. Look how long

01:54I've summarized it and already changed the pole already.

01:56After multiple reports to Flo, TNT and WASA with no redress,

02:01the residents turned to TV6, contacted for feedback. WASA informed TV6 News that it was,

02:09in fact, the Port of Spain City Corporation, which was doing drainworks in the area,

02:14and damaged the sewer. WASA says it then partnered with the corporation to restore

02:19the damaged sewer lines and the corporation was expected to restore the area. The authority says

02:26it will liaise with the corporation on the matter. Meantime, TNT is giving the assurance

02:31that the pole does not pose any immediate danger and adds that it is working on having the other

02:37utility providers remove their infrastructure so that the old pole can be removed in the

02:43shortest possible time. Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.

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