THE EDITOR, Sir:
To coincide with the opening of the Toll Road in Portmore, we propose that the Government rename Portmore, Toll City.
Portmore is a dormitory city of mostly middle-class civil servants, yet they are required to spend some $600 per week on tolls alone outside of gas payments. Wouldn't they be working not to buy food and live a normal mediocre life? Instead, they are deliberately being sent to below-the-poverty-line lifestyle, just to go to work and return to their homes.
Another thing is the distance that the toll road covers is remarkably short for the payment requested it has got to be the shortest most expensive toll request made in history. In America, the toll road between West Palm Beach and Miami is 56 miles one way and there are only two tolls along that stretch.
This two-mile toll at $60 is going to pay for the full stretch of all the highways put together.
I am etc.,
J.M. Fletcher
Irish Town
