According to an article on the World Bank’s Let’s Talk Development Blog; “roads are the arteries through which the economy pulses. By linking producers to markets, workers to jobs, students to school, and the sick to hospitals, roads are vital to any development agenda.” Simply put, roads are an important necessity for development and helps chart the progress of a country. Roads link communities to each other, people to each other, facilitates trade with the movement of goods and services inland, and the list goes on and on. As another writer puts it “roads are the conduit of life’s activities.” The Government of Saint Lucia has made the rehabilitation of roads and bridges, the construction of new roads and potholing, the construction of footpaths and pathways, a major priority over the last three years.
