safely after waiting 25 years for a sidewalk.

The sidewalk stretches from the beginning of the road to Marshall's food store.

Mrs. Nellie Waters, who lives on the road, said it took the Department of Works and Engineering almost 26 years to make a move on building a sidewalk so that people could walk safely along the street.

"Now that it's almost completed it looks so nice. The workers didn't just throw cement down, they made it look presentable and attractive. They have also planted a few plants and built walls.

"We get a lot of traffic along this road and it was very dangerous to walk on it.'' One of the people that tried to hurry along the Works and Engineering Department was Mr. Lawson Mapp. "I first wrote the Ministry in 1981 requesting that they build a sidewalk for the safety of people walking along the road,'' he said. "Nothing happened until now.'' Residents say the situation was made even more dangerous because the Elizabeth Hills housing project for senior citizens is on the street. Resident of the homes Mr. Jack Pickering said he was thrilled with the new sidewalk.

"I wrote two or three letters to the ministry asking them to build a sidewalk and some steps so that we would not have to walk all the way around to get to the apartments,'' he said. "I told the chief engineer that pedestrians need more protection.'' Work is halfway completed.

SWEEPING IN THE NEW -- Works and Engineering worker Mr. David Augustus (Bumpsie) Simmons sweeps along his new territory, the long awaited sidewalk on Happy Valley Road.