Pothole Problems on PG Highway Being Addressed

So, what about those pesky potholes that are turning into craters at the northern and western entrances to Belize City? Chief Engineer Moody explained that the Ministry has been battling the frequent rains to get those repairs done. A particular trouble spot is the section of the Philip Goldson Highway, between the Haulover Bridge and Biltmore, that breaks up every few years due to the unstable ground underneath. Moody mentioned that until they can secure the hefty funds needed to drive piles into the earth to stabilize it, they’ll have to keep up with continuous corrective work.

 

Evondale Moody, Chief Engineer, M.I.D.H

“The maintenance crew is out doing those works, but we need to deal with the weather as well in carrying out our work successfully. The idea is to try and see how best we could garner funds to do the piling foundation for that section of the highway because I think I’ve mentioned before that that will continue to settle as time progresses because of the amount of peat that we have underlying the pavement surface there. And so what we’re doing as a ministry is just corrective measures, but that’s only on a temporary basis because that is not a long term solution to fixing the problem. The long-term solution is for us to pile the carriageway similar to what we have done to the approach of the bridges.  And also the piling that we’ve done to the roundabout near the Benny’s apartment. Once we could get funding to do that, then we would have a long-term solution to solving that consolidated problem that continuously, uh, bothers us, but until such time, we’ll have to just do the, the regular maintenance that the MIDH is doing.”