Airport roundabout creates traffic jam |09 December 2017

The newly registered Seychelles Civil Society (CSC) has called on the Seychelles Land  Transport Agency (SLTA) to rethink their design of the roundabout at the airport.

The way they have designed it is creating a traffic jam during every evening rush hour which was not there before the roundabout was created.

It is not acceptable for anyone to queue for 15 minutes to navigate the roundabout.

In addition the roundabout island is too big unless someone plans to build a condominium inside the roundabout. 

The size is unnecessary and it is not easy for 2 vehicles to manoeuvre side by side going round at the same time. 

Secondly there should have been a flyover going north/south to take traffic going straight without the need to queue up and navigate round the roundabout.

A flyover would also provide a funnelling of the two lanes highway into single lanes by the petrol station.

My, oh my we know how to get things wrong!

Motorists are also asking why the extravagance of creating pink tiled sidewalks; surely this extra cost could have been saved and used elsewhere. May be we are expecting pink elephants to use the sidewalks.

The problem is there is insufficient consultations about our infrastructure; those who think they know it all are making blunders. Take a look at Victoria and it is plain to see that Francis Rachel street traffic routing is a mess and someone needs to rethink this layout.

At the airport we definitely need to build a flyover and get rid of this nightmare that has been created by this poorly designed roundabout.

Contributed by Barry Laine FCIM, FInst SMM, MCMI, MBSCH

Seychelles Civil Society