Story: Abdul Aziz
The Ministry of Transportation has embarked on an operation to close all unauthorised access routes on the Accra-Tema Motorway to avoid further accidents.
The unauthorised exit and entry points on the motorway had been a source of danger to the motoring public. It would be recalled that former President Jerry John Rawlings narrowly escaped death on the motorway when a vehicle appeared from an unauthorised route to cross his path.
According to Mr Ken S. Anku, a media consultant to the Ministry of Transportation, the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) was undertaking the exercise purely in the interest of the safety of the motoring public and not for any other considerations.
He said as a responsible and sensitive ministry, it had developed some short term and long term solutions to ease the effects of traffic jams that might result from the closure of those unauthorised routes.
He said as a first step, the ministry was in the process of providing alternative exit and entry points on the motorway at a location further west of the overhead cattle bridge.
Mr Anku explained that the intervention was intended to provide a safer access to residents located along the road.
He further said that in order to ease traffic movements within the Accra East corridor, the ministry, through the Department of Urban Roads, was continuing to improve on the La beach road.
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