Following a landslide Wednesday, the Department of Infrastructure, Ports and Transport has announced the closure of the Bois Cachet road in Castries.
Chief Engineer Renata Philogene-McKie, who announced the road closure, disclosed that the landslide was active.
The chief engineer stated, “Our technical team, along with utility companies, is on site and working diligently to resolve the situation.”
She said, “We appreciate your understanding and urge all drivers to seek alternate routes for their safety.”
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This did not have toget to this stage. Over the past years, the road did show signs of undermining or the possibility of a landslide occuring. Now, they’ll close the road to spend tons of money. SMH.
Ministry Of Infrastructure literally waited for this to happen…i trust yourll tackle both portions of road that are well ripe to collapse in any heavy downpour…this one here and the one in the last hairpin bend.
We act on consequence which has proven to be more costly than to just take preventative measures and maintain proper drainage on our roads…
The next road to collapse is the Morne Road just higher up from the Bois Cachet gap. This has been slipping away for years and it’s one trough system or tropical wave away from total failure. There is a concrete house that is in grave danger if the road collapses. The Ministry of Infrastructure has a mandate to do preventative road maintenance but our roads continue to be in a worse-than-deplorable condition past the halfway point in “The year of Infrastructure”. SMDFH.
Even the blind bats in my roof saw this coming!!!
The Morne Foortune land mass mobile.
A complete servey of the North East and West is needed.
Many homes are at risk.
The back road at Corinth has a huge dip. If you are not familiar with the road you can damage your car terribly there. This road is always used as a by pass when there is traffic to get out by computer world. It NEEDS SERIOUS ATTENTION. Please consider putting proper drainage or reinforcements so that the road doesnt sink in. I am not an engineer but patching over it each time does not seem to be working.
I’m not surprised this happened. This road has been ripping apart for a good 2+ years, providing clear signs of deterioration, yet all they do is superficial pothole refilling.
St. Lucians be prepared for this to happen to many more roads as nothing is being done to maintain what is essentially the circulatory system of our island. This is what laissez-faire gets you.