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<p>Persons with physical disabilities within the town of Lucea, Hanover, can now breathe a sigh of relief as a once-opened drain along a sidewalk in the town has been fixed.</p>
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<p>The had been a point of complaint for some years. The problem was mainly on Miller Drive, Hanover and Church streets.</p>
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<p>President of the
Hanover Disability Association, Anthony Bingham, had also lamented the fact
that the manholes on Hanover Street and Millers Drive, were left in such a bad
condition, that bodied residents and schoolchildren have even fallen in them,
and sustained bad injuries.</p>
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<p>He had also
complained that the manholes had contributed to the traffic congestion issues which
were plaguing the parish capital, as pedestrians opt to walk in the roadway in
order to circumvent them, noting as well that wheelchair bound persons, as well
as the visually impaired, were the ones mostly affected.&nbsp; </p>
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<p>Mr Bingham had
also accused the relevant state agencies responsible for road repairs in the town
as being derelict in their duties.&nbsp;&nbsp; He
had also said the situation was compounded by the fact that on some days, the
sidewalks on the town’s major thoroughfare, the Willie DeLisser Boulevard, was
overrun with vendors, leaving little or no space for pedestrians.</p>
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<p>But now, the NWA
office in the parish, which is under new management has solved much of the town’s
pedestrian woes and residents are able to walk freely without looking downwards
for these traps.&nbsp; Kudos to the NWA for
turning a new leaf.&nbsp; The nightmare is
over.</p>
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