But even with the paving and painting, one city resident wants more. Former Mayoral Candidate Stephen Okeke says he wants a speed reducer called thumb-bumps placed on the northern highway between Belize City and the Haulover Bridge.
Okeke lives at mile three and a half not far from where Liang Sheng Cheng was knocked down and killed on Saturday morning.
In fact, to make his point, the always dramatic Okeke held the press conference exactly in front of the drain where Cheng's dead body lay.
He says thumb bumps are a cheap and relatively un-intrusive way to get speeding drivers to slow down:
Steven Okeke - Wants Thumb Bumps Installed
"With these thumb bumps - they're called thumb bumps - you can drive over this at 30-40 miles per hour, but anything above that, it will shake the vehicle and help you to slow down. But it will not slow traffic. And these thumb bumps are - like what you find here - could be made from metal. It's not so much as to cause a lot of discomfort or inconvenience, but what is a driver's inconvenience, when compared to the loss of life of a loved-one. I believe strongly that between the Haulover bridge, and the flag monument, there should be at least 4 bump spots because once you cross the Haulover now, you're in a residential neighborhood. These thumb bumps solves the problem. What I'm saying is that we can get this done within a month. We don't have to wait for one more fatality to do that, and you don't have that need to break up the streets to do reconstruction. This can actually be driven into the street, drilled and secured."
Okeke says the thumb bumps cane be made in Belize for eighty dollars - and, no, he is not asking for the contract.
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