AS POSTED BY C.S. "Sorry, I am only trying to get real facts concerning Bridge."
At the risk of stepping it in - again - I need to ask Corona Steve a question: Just what is your interest in the bridge? You have challenged a few people here and I have to wonder what your agenda is? I have actually spent the time to go back through and read all of your posts and I don't get it. It looks like you have been to A/C once and now want to see changes.
I could afford to spend the time on line searching this thread because I am NOT in Belize right now paying the high price for internet time. I went to Belize the first time in 1998 and made 8 trips there before I moved permanently two years ago. I chose to live on the north end to get away from the noise, traffic and dust in town. I have become an active member of the North Ambergris Caye Neighborhood Watch Association and have made many friends up north; they are a great bunch of people.
Most of them spent years fighting AGAINST a bridge. Only last year did they start agreeing that the traffic jams at the pull ferry were getting so frustrating that MAYBE a bridge could help. In fact, one of my neighbors, who is an engineer, designed a floating bridge that could have been built for little money and very quickly. Those of us who live up here even offered to pay for it. This would have been as high as the metal bridge they are supposedly building so all of the same boats could have gone under it. However, it could have been detached from either end and 'swung' out of the way for taller boats.
The government, being what it is, would not let us do this. I will not comment on my opinion about why. (See I can learn). That bridge could have been in operation for some time now. It definitely would not have been big enough for anything other than golf carts. For some strange reason some of us do not trust that a bridge with a little toll both separating the two lanes will be a fact. Already extra wide ATV are using the pull ferry and these will not fit on smaller lanes.
The resorts up north used to provide transportation by boat several times a day to their guests. Some still do. However, many of them have seen a benefit to renting golf carts to their unsuspecting guest thereby making money and saving money on gasoline for the boats. I don't blame them; just good business. But it has increased the traffic.
Many developers, including the one I bought from, have their materials barged up with Bob Cats and dump trucks on the barge. These then fill up and lumber down our 'non-roads.' The ruts they cut into the sand fill up with every rain and become difficult if not impossible to get a golf cart through.
There is so much development going on up north that the commute traffic is hard to imagine. The workers, on their bicycles and on foot, crowd in front of the golf carts at the ferry and the carts can get very backed up causing delays of over an hour. The altercations became so heated that we hired the police to control the traffic from 4 to 6 PM. Of course when they are needed someplace else they go. Then it is back to a free for all.
Ask any government official about the road up north and they will tell you there is no road up north. There is 'The Queens Way" which is a 35' width along the beach. A few years back some of the developers along what is called Bob's Flats built the road along the lagoon side of that stretch to get the few golf carts from coming up the beach. I may be wrong, but I have been told that the residents are the ones who buy the materials and supply the labor for the constant job of repairing the NO Road. I do know that we (residents and Chamber of Commerce) all paid a guy named Casey to build the new ramp on the north side.
So Corona Steve, as you see you waded into a very controversial subject. Then you wonder why you are not taken seriously. The bridge issue is a hot button pusher. It is easier to make jokes about it than express our true feelings and get attacked. My personal bottom line is 'What's in it for you?" This is a question for everyone, no matter which of the many sides of the issue you are on.
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