The Roads Minister, Kwasi Amoako-Attah, has uncovered that forms are underway to change over deserted tollbooths into washrooms in different parts of the nation.
Concurring to the Minister, the move is to guarantee the cessation of the hone whereby commuters and drivers ease themselves by the roadside.
The Serve made this disclosure after authorities of the National Roads Safety Authority (NRSA) requested to the Service to evacuate the different tollbooths in the event that government has no substitute utilize for them.
The NRSA’s concern is that the nearness of the booths may cause road mischances.
Interacting with the media after the assembly with the NRSA authorities, Mr Amoako-Attah clarified that it is additionally to address the washroom shortage on the different thruways within the nation.
“The government will refurbish all those tollbooth structures to supply appropriate and not too bad washrooms, for utilize by motorists. So that we prompt them to cease from the hone that you just see, that at times cars halting aimlessly on the thruway and individuals getting out, to small-small as we ordinarily say it.
“You see men on the cleared out and ladies on the proper [urinating] see, it’s all obscene, it’s not a great hone,†he stressed.
In any case, the Head of the NRSA Compliance Unit, Kwame Koduah Atuahene said the tollbooths have gotten to be obstructions to motorists and seem pose perils to them, subsequently, they ought to be expelled.
“We have talked to the Ghana Thruway Specialist to do anything it needs to expel them[tollbooths] so that they do not cause any hurt some time recently we do something around it.
“Either you take them off or allow adequate progress caution of approximately 500 meters ahead or one kilometer ahead to notify drivers that they are drawing nearer an unused tollbooth so they ought to moderate down. Eventually, we need motorists to be secure,†he told the media.