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  • 11 months ago
Residents of Papourie Road, Barrackpore are tonight pleading with the government to repair a massive landslip in their community.

The slippage is over 300 feet in length along a main access road connecting Barrackpore to Princes Town.

Our reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh met with residents and brings us their story.
Transcript
00:00We want the road fixed. We want the road fixed. We want the road fixed.
00:05It started with a small crack, and five years later, a home is completely destroyed, others
00:11threatened, and hundreds of feet of roadway have crumbled.
00:16We are standing on the landslip itself. This landslip is about 300 feet in length from
00:23where I stand to the other end. And look, from the road level to the bottom level is
00:30approximately 20 feet in depth. If something should go wrong or a driver take an edge,
00:41it's down a precipice, causing fatality, damage, and even death.
00:49The landslip near Rajak Alley Avenue, Papri Road, Bharatpur, is a daily nightmare for
00:55commuters who, on entering one side of the now one-lane road, can only tell at the middle
01:01if someone else is coming from the opposite direction.
01:05It's so bad that when cars reach in the middle, nobody don't want to reverse, nobody want
01:09to go backward, forward. There's a lot of quarrelling, cursing early, early in the morning.
01:15It still have the pothole, large pothole. When we pass over this pothole, we crank case,
01:20we ball joint, we end, it's always damaging. We always, in a daily basis, we always have
01:25to be fixing something. If it's not this week, next week, we always be fixing as a taxi driver.
01:34All our money that we make from day to day goes back onto the car, onto minor family,
01:40and this condition is very hard.
01:43It's a few hundred feet and more, and all we get on this road is some bamboo and some
01:47caution tape. That is not good enough. We have two schools in Bharatpur, we have a police
01:52station in Bharatpur, we have so much of businesses developing in Bharatpur, and for the people
01:58to transport on this road is very, very dangerous.
02:01An elderly couple was displaced when their home collapsed as a result of the landslip,
02:06and if it continues to deteriorate, it could undermine the houses on the opposite side.
02:12Police and drivers say without immediate repairs, the road will be impassable very soon, but
02:19it's a vital access route between Princesstown and Bharatpur, utilised by many people daily.
02:26It's why they're making this public call for help.
02:29We really, really want assistance over here. I feel like they condemn us. They're taking
02:35too long. A lot of people come in, they're fixing, they're cutting all this bamboo. The
02:40next day, it's not there because it caves in. So we really, really need some help.
02:46We want something done, and we want it done right now.
02:50We are calling on you, Mr Imbert and Mr Rohan Senanan, please listen to our cries and assist
02:55the people in Bharatpur.
02:57We contacted the Minister of Works and Transport concerning this landslip and the concerns
03:02of residents, but up to news time, did not receive a response.
03:08Nidhi Raghubandh Tika Singh, TV6 News.
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