Deputy Mayor for transport study tour

Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan will join a team of traffic and transportation practitioners from the Ministry of Public Infrastructure and the Guyana Police Force on a week-long transportation study tour, which will take place in Mexico and Colombia from next week.

Duncan announced during the Mayor and City Council’s (M&CC’s) statutory meeting yesterday that he had accepted an invitation from the Ministry of Public Infrastructure to participate in an Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)-funded tour, which will begin on March 25th and end April 1st.

Reading the correspondence sent to him by the Ministry, it was stated that the tour forms a component of

a study currently being conducted by the IADB on Georgetown’s transportation network. The tour is aimed at providing exposure to best practices developed by Latin American cities in the areas of sustainable transport, urban traffic and parking management, among others.

The study currently being conducted on Georgetown, it was noted, will act as a diagnosis of problems and threats and provide recommendations in relation to public transportation, structural operations, institutional organizations and financing, in order to “support the design of a public transport system to provide users with a safe, efficient, clean and affordable service.”