And we also asked the mayor about the ongoing works in the Gungulung area. He explained that they've been fixing the streets and upgrading the area - which includes getting rid of the maze of London bridges - to prepare for the long promised, long-delayed electric buses.
Wagner told us more about what they've done so far.
Bernard Wagner, Mayor of Belize City
"Lovely, lovely initiative and collaborative effort again, I must say, between the Ministry of Infrastructure. It's a huge project, the city could never have taken on that project by itself. It's over three million, so what we did, we met with the Minister of Finance, we said the city will put in equity into that project and so we started with the access road, the London Bridges, we have done away with London Bridges and we have also been able to dredge the canal back to where it was, 6-7 feet, we reach the sandbed, we remove all the mud, all the material, now we will put in the gabion stones to line the canal, the complete 2,100 feet of canal will be lined on both sides. The Ministry of Infrastructure is putting in the concrete street, we'll be putting in along with the gabion stones, the infrastructure to really put some greenery in that area as well. But it will be a beautiful, beautiful development for the gungulung area, an area that has suffered for years, whose people have suffered, and we at the city along with the government is certainly looking to alleviate the suffering."
The mayor did not give a timeline for when the work would be finished, or when the buses will arrive in the country.
