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Monday, August 12, 2013WATER flowing across the main road in Farm, Whitehouse gives the impression that an errant spring is to blame. But the source, according to residents, is a blocked culvert which should be channelling water from a nearby pumphouse under the road. Instead, the water flows on the surface, slowing eating away at the asphalt and making life miserable for motorists.Here, traffic slows to a crawl in order to navigate the gaping holes sloshing with water.Fine Forrest, who operates a bar just in front of the bad patch, told the Jamaica Observer that it has been many months since things have been that way. What makes it even worse, as far as she is concerned, is that the bad spot is just down the road from Sandals Whitehouse European Village and Spa.“When we (Jamaicans) will overlook some tings, yuh cyaan have tourist driving on this. Yuh know how much time mi see dem tek out camera and ah tek picture of it?! It look bad pon wi,” she said.“It stay bad man,” added Earl Foster.A sales rep with Caribbean Bottlers Limited who uses that route regularly, Foster said the road conditions are deteriorating rapidly, so much so that several bus and taxi operators are already bypassing Farm and nearby Whitehouse by using the road from Robin River to Bluefields instead.For residents of Farm, this means there are fewer public passenger vehicles that use their route. It could soon mean increased fares, too.(PHOTO: LIONEL ROOKWOOD)
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"Yuh cyaan have tourist driving on this"
