Staff Writer
Frustrated motorists along the busy Magiagi Cemetery to Vaivase-tai Rd. finally found some relief this week with repairs to a run of deep potholes along the road.
A section close to 100 meters was laid over with a new seal of tar and gravel that made travel easier and with less stress for motorists.
Road contract workers received waves and appreciative looks of relief from many of the passing motorists as they laboured under the heat of the afternoon humidity to re-seal the damaged road.
Long streams of traffic had to crawl slowly past the torn up part of the road during the peak hours in the mornings and afternoons for several days.
Traffic is heavy on this particular road for travel to the National University of Samoa and other surrounding schools including Samoa College.
Office workers clog up the morning and after work rush along the road.
Heavy rainfall of the last few weeks weakened the tar seal it eventually cracked under the pound from the ongoing flow of traffic.
Samoa is now officially into the cyclone season as of last Sunday.
Torrential rainfall and flooding take their toll on the road with pothole damages in the most travelled sections of the road like Magiagi Cemetery to Vaivase.
Heavy downpour of rain on the south island of Upolu affected road travel leading up to last weekend.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment as well as the emergency services, FESA, gave safety advisories to the travelling public over road risks.
High water levels and fast flowing water mostly at low river crossings posed safety worries road travellers.
