With the Christmas season fast approaching, Mayor of May Pen, Clarendon, Winston Maragh, shares plans to restore misused and neglected structures throughout the town, by renovating these areas as well as implementing stricter measures to maintain them.
Maragh shared that he recently met with business owners in May Pen to discuss projects that will serve to develop areas along the Clarendon capital.
“What happened is that we have expanded our municipal police team and so we have decided to ramp up enforcement in the town. So, we are looking at no parking areas and no vending areas. Over the years, we had a breakdown, put it that way. Vendors were taking over the main street and everybody was like parking all over the place, causing traffic congestion in the town. So, we met with the business people in the town and we had a good turnout. We had some twenty-two inside here and we had another twenty-five online, of business owners in the town. So, what happened is that they agreed with some of the things that we are doing and they plan to work with us,” he said.
Maragh also shared that the project is set to officially begin next week Sunday. He mentioned that the developments will vastly impact members of the public, including the construction of ramps to facilitate safer commute for those with disabilities.
“In the discussion, we have decided that we would select some areas for public parking, so that they would be allowed to park their vehicles in front of their places and so on, and of course, make allowance for delivery trucks on delivery days and that sort of thing. So, we putting some order back in the town. So, starting this Sunday, we will be repainting the curb walls and the no-parking zones and we’ll be replacing some of the no-parking signs that were torn down over the years, as well as we have constructed some wheelchair ramps. So, we have cut down the edges of some of the sidewalks and we have built wheelchair ramps for the disabled people to allow easier access to sidewalks, and then we will be putting in the wheelchair ramp logos with the paintings there so that they can be visibly seen. So, we’re doing a lot of work this weekend,” he explained.
“We are preparing for what we expect to be a heavy turnout this December and the holiday season. We are working closely with the police and we had a meeting with the police before we met with the business people and the police were also in on our meeting on Wednesday. By the end of November, we should have everything in place. All of what we have discussed, all the recommendations that we got from the business people and what we gave them; we’ll put everything together and by the end of November, everything should be in full swing so we’ll be seeing a different May Pen,” he added, stating that there are several other developmental plans in the pipeline.
Maragh noted that subsequent to these developments, the next task will be rerouting traffic flow to reduce congestion by fusing all the streets into one-ways.
