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And finally tonight, we had to follow up with the mayor today - after he finally removed an unnecessary speed bump in the downtown area of the city. It caused countless traffic jams, and slowed the flow of traffic during the rush hour.
Today, he conceded that the simple speed bump has outlived its useful life:
Reporter
"Why did the council see a need to place a speed bump on a Main Street?
Bernard Wagner, Mayor of Belize City
To ease speeding (laughs)."
And while he was laughing then, the council has realized the error of its decision. Quietly and without notice, the speed bump was removed earlier this week. Rather than easing speeding, it was creating a constant traffic jam, 200 feet beyond an intersection now controlled by traffic lights:
Bernard Wagner, Mayor of Belize City
"No it was both, we had plans to include that area there in our smart system, traffic management and we just had to put that bump there temporarily and so as you can see the lights are now functioning and so we have removed the speed bump."
"We have received very good comments on that traffic light it has created sort of a smooth flow of traffic and that is just about people, people want to be encouraged and people want new smart activities in their city and its thought I always say let's work smarter than harder having a person their in the morning manually guiding traffic is that smart, it is working harder and having now a traffic light there which really monitors and really controls how traffic is flowing in that area we feel good about it and we will continue to see those key areas where there are hot spots developing to put in place that sort of traffic management system."
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