Bad spot for a toll
published: Sunday | July 9, 2006

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I find it very strange that a toll road was placed at the entrance of Portmore. Why was this done? It seems to me that such a draconian move has placed Portmore residents and visitors to Portmore at the ransom of toll collectors. A toll road ought to be constructed in a vicinity which does not act as a barrier to enter and exit a residential community. Moreover, outside of opting to use a particular toll road, wherever it exists throughout the island, motorists should have at least two alternate routes available to them.

It is grossly unfair that Portmore residents will have to pay a toll, over the span of the next 35 years, in order to enter and exit their community. Is this going to be the case for other highly-concentrated residential communities throughout the island as well? Lastly, the Government, in its exuberance to build the Portmore leg of Highway 2000, failed to realise a fundamental economic principle: that you don't put a service/ product on the market at a price that the majority of your target consumers cannot afford.

I am etc.,

PATRICK A. GALLIMORE

pagalley@hotmail.com

Kingston

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