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People's Report

Published:Saturday | June 4, 2011 | 12:00 AM
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Victoria Avenue in downtown Kingston is in anything but pristine condition, as potholes make for a bumpy ride.
Massive potholes pockmark Dorset Avenue in Vineyard Town, Kingston, posing a major hazard to motor vehicles.
Massive potholes pockmark Dorset Avenue in Vineyard Town, Kingston, posing a major hazard to motor vehicles.
If you're not driving an SUV through Vineyard Town, you'd better make an appointment with your mechanic. These craters tell you why.
If you're not driving an SUV through Vineyard Town, you'd better make an appointment with your mechanic. These craters tell you why.
Post Road, near the St Catherine-St Mary border, is in need of repair. The reader says Gregory Mair is the MP, and Abe Dabdoub and Phyllis Mitchell before him, but neither has, allegedly, done any roadwork for years.
Victoria Avenue in downtown Kingston is in anything but pristine condition, as potholes make for a bumpy ride.
Victoria Avenue in downtown Kingston is in anything but pristine condition, as potholes make for a bumpy ride.
Earlier this week, The Gleaner published a letter from a senior citizen who claimed that two of her tyres were busted after plunging into potholes on Winchester Avenue, near Half-Way Tree, St Andrew.
Earlier this week, The Gleaner published a letter from a senior citizen who claimed that two of her tyres were busted after plunging into potholes on Winchester Avenue, near Half-Way Tree, St Andrew.
Another view of the road at the ford between Riversdale and Troja in St Catherine.
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Photos by Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer



  • Save my road, Mike!

JDIP has been touted as the "saviour to Jamaica's infrastructure". But will it save your road? Send us photos of your pothole-riddled road and ask Works Minister Mike Henry if yours will be saved, or if you'll have to wait on your hibernating parish council. Email photos and letters to letters@gleanerjm.com, or mail to Save My Road, Mike!, The Gleaner Company, 7 North Street, Kingston.