RESIDENTS of Dunn’s Ville, located just a few miles outside the resort town of Ocho Rios, have likened the water-filled potholes inundating the roadway to that of fish ponds.

The Jamaica Observer North East team had a first hand experience of what the residents experience on a daily basis traversing the deplorable road with its rocky surface filled with potholes and breakaways in some sections.

This bumpy and sometimes treacherous journey is what the residents say they have to contend with every day.

The residents who are pleading with the relevant authorities to address their plight said the road has been in a deplorable condition for years.

Repair work, they said, began on a section of the road, recently, with the promise by their political representative that the rest of it would have been completed shortly but to date nothing else has been done.

“Ah fish pond in our roads,” one resident said in expressing frustration at the condition of the roadway.

According to another resident, he has been living in the community for years but has never seen any major work done to improve the condition of the roads.

“Mi born come see it so,” he said.

When asked if he remembered the last time the road was fixed, another resident said, “Mi nuh remember it ever fix.”

“A dis we have to drive on and then we have to go deal with police,” said a taxi operator in the community who pointed to the damage the road has caused to his vehicle.

Traversing on the bumpy roadway is especially difficult for the sick.

“Mi carry one sick woman and every pothole mi drop in, the woman feel pain. Mi couldn’t do nothing unless me ago fly,” taxi operator Richie said.

With the recent drought, the residents say they are facing serious challenges in getting water trucked to the community because of the deplorable conditions and are pleading with truck operators to sell them the precious resource.

According to the residents, the truck operators are unwilling to come to the community because of the condition of the road.

“We don’t have any water right now. More than one truck driver has told me that because the road is bad we are not getting any help right now,” one resident said, adding that although she was willing to pay for the water to be trucked to her home, she was refused the service because of the roadway.