Two feasibility studies have been completed to pave the way for the construction of the 21-kilometre Pokuase-Awoshie trunk road to link Amasaman in Ga West to Weija in Ga South in the Greater Accra Region.
The two districts, which are the major food baskets of the region, have remained inaccessible for years due to the absence of a good road network between them.
The two feasibility studies, road and urban development and the actual road studies, were funded by the Ghana government, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Agence Francaise de Developement (AFD).
The urban development feasibility study was to enable the three partners to study the state of affairs of development projects such as schools, clinics and hospitals.
Mr Ferdinand Yali, a planner with the Urban Roads Project Department of the Ministry of Roads and Highways, said the AfDB and the AFD, the two institutions which expressed their preparedness to assist in the construction of the road under the Urban Roads Improvement Project, funded the two studies to complement the efforts of the government.
He said the studies had revealed that infrastructure such as schools, markets and clinics would have to be upgraded to be at par with the standard of the road.
He said the urban development study also looked at the income levels of residents of the two districts to ascertain the level of economic activities in the area and the way the road would assist to improve economic activities and standard of living of the inhabitants and communities within the catchment area of the road.
The major communities along the trunk road include Pokuase, Ayawaso, Amamolley, Ablekuma, Anyaa and Awoshie.
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