Parents fear safety of their children on Rewa bridge

Parents fear safety of their children on Rewa bridge

By Dhanjay Deo
Thursday 06/07/2017
The pedestrian walkway of the Rewa Bridge (left) and the Rewa bridge (right) being shown.

The safety of hundreds of students in Nausori is at risk as they are currently walking on the pedestrian walkway of the Rewa Bridge without any pedestrian fence.

The old Rewa Bridge was closed last week because of safety reasons, however a number of concerned parents are now raising concerns that their children are not safe on the new Rewa Bridge as they are walking just beside speeding vehicles on the four lane bridge.

A concerned parent has told Fijivillage that the Rewa Bridge is not just any small bridge that hundreds of students of Dilkusha Methodist Kindergarten, Dilkusha High and Lelean Memorial School can quickly walk across.

The parent says that children are sometimes playful and can push each other while walking, and this can result in a student landing in front of a vehicle on the longest bridge in the country.

The Fiji Roads Authority had stated on the 23rd of last month that it will soon install a pedestrian fence on the new Rewa Bridge that will provide a secondary barrier between pedestrians and vehicles.

Fijivillage has not witnessed any work in this regard.

We have sent questions to the FRA and a response is expected soon.

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