PAY AS YOU GO

IF YOU ARE driving into Bridgetown you should pay a toll. And if you are a Government worker and park in the City, you should pay for that privilege – about $600 per month. Traffic engineer John Whittingham, in addressing the Louis A. Lynch Memorial Lecture at Frank Collymore Hall earlier this week, made the recommendations. He said a road user charge should be instituted where motorists going into Bridgetown paid for entering a particular zone. Each vehicle would have a coloured sticker that would allow them to enter the zone. Checkpoints would be established which would allow for the money to be collected. With regard to the toll, he said it would work best in central areas like Bridgetown, Speightstown, Warrens and Holetown....He also said the design of Barbados' roundabouts was not standard, as they did not follow the international standards. According to the traffic engineer, the individuals who designed the roundabouts have failed to do several things, even in the placing of pedestrian crossings. "The roundabout manual of Great Britain which is the master manual suggests that the designated crossing should be 50 metres away from the roundabout.
Fifty metres is quite a distance and it gives you time to see the pedestrian," he said. Source: Nation News

Paying to drive into Bridgetown... hmm.. but barbados reaaal small, you might just reverse out of your driveway and end up getting charge. I mean you can't really go anywhere without passing through Bridgetown, Warrens, Holetown etc... This guy is mentioning stuff which happens in the UK, but it's all good for the Brits since they have a decent public transport system. You don't want to pay the toll in Britain? Leave your car at home and take a double-decker bus, pretty cool.
In Barbados however, it would be more like, Leave your car at home, IF you want to wait long in the boiling sun, cram into an smelly overcrowded bus which only passes hourly (if yuh miss it, cakes burn), get where you're going extremely late, oh... and NOT pay the toll. Slogan: "Save a dollar, waste your life. :)" Alternative: Drive into Bridgetown and pay to use the pothole ridden roads, and then turn around and spend $895 buying some new shocks for your car. I'm sure the travelling public will be just delighted with their wide range of options. If yuh mudda call yuh now for a lift after she spend $500 at Julie'N, she better try and walk up Collymore Rock wid dem bags, cuz de TOLL gine be hot! It's all well and good to make these suggestions, but there are other things which must first exist before you can start implementing these solution. That's like creating this strange liquid which can dissolve anything! That's great but ahhh... what you gine put it in, pea brain.

*After reading this post, 482 persons will ask what will Government do with the money from the tolls? Build better streets and road signs?........ JUST KIDDING! hahahaha...