🚗 DJ ROADBLOCK — Friday April 10, 2026 🚗 Spinning the hits and dodging the potholes since forever

Goooood morning Georgetown! It is FRIDAY and DJ Roadblock is LIVE in your ears, your eyes, and unfortunately also in your windshield because traffic is not playing today, people. Buckle up. Literally. It is the law and also survival.

🔴 EAST BANK DEMERARA: FULL LOCKDOWN ENERGY

People. East Bank this morning is what the government would describe as “a dynamic transportation situation” and what everyone sitting in it is describing as something I cannot print. The usual suspects: school drop-off traffic converging with people heading to Georgetown for work, construction equipment parked in a way that suggests the operator believes cars are optional, and that one minibus that has decided its personal schedule supersedes all traffic laws and the concept of lanes.

If you are on East Bank heading into town: leave now. If you left twenty minutes ago: you are currently still on East Bank. If you have not left yet: consider working from home, which you cannot do, which is why you are reading this from East Bank.

DJ Roadblock’s pick for East Bank: “Slow Ride” — Foghat (1975). Still relevant.

🟡 CAMP STREET / VLISSENGEN ROAD: PROCEED WITH CAUTION AND PRAYER

The Camp Street / Vlissengen intersection is doing what it does every Friday morning which is creating a masterpiece of chaos that would be impressive if you weren’t stuck in it. The traffic lights are technically functioning. The drivers are technically following them. The problem is the forty-seven cars that arrived at the intersection simultaneously from different directions, all of whom technically had the right of way depending on which light you were watching.

Best alternate route: Thomas Street to Church Street. You are welcome. It will add seven minutes and subtract fifteen years of stress.

🟢 SHERIFF STREET: SURPRISINGLY OKAY

Sheriff Street this morning is — and I cannot believe I am saying this — actually moving. Not fast. Not smoothly. But moving. This is a Friday miracle and DJ Roadblock is not questioning it. I am simply reporting it. If you need to get from Campbellville to the east, Sheriff Street is your friend today. Use it before it changes its mind.

🔴 KITTY ROUNDABOUT: ETERNAL AND UNKNOWABLE

The Kitty roundabout is, as always, a philosophical problem disguised as infrastructure. No one agrees on who has right of way. Everyone believes they have right of way. The result is a kind of improvised democracy that works approximately 70% of the time and produces minor incidents the other 30%. This is not new information. It is Thursday information that has carried into Friday, as it does every week.

DJ Roadblock suggests: eye contact, patience, and the willingness to let the other person go first once in a while. It will not kill you. The alternative might.

📍 QUICK HITS:

  • Mandela Avenue: Moving but only just. The usual.
  • Vlissengen heading south: Smooth until the school zone. Then not smooth.
  • East Coast highway: Accident reported near Montrose early this morning. Clear by now but the rubbernecking residue remains.
  • Parika stelling: Ferry schedule operating. Traffic at the stelling itself is what it always is.
  • Eccles / Providence corridor: Heavy heading into Georgetown, light heading out. This will reverse at 4 PM with the precision of a clock.

DJ ROADBLOCK’S FRIDAY WISDOM:

The government announced a new digital registry of road users tracking all traffic offences. This means your driving record is about to become a permanent feature of your relationship with the state. DJ Roadblock suggests driving better. DJ Roadblock also suggests not driving the way he has seen people drive on Vlissengen Road this week, because that kind of driving is now going to follow you to every government office in the country.

Have a safe Friday, Georgetown. Use your indicators. They were included with the vehicle.

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