Ministry of Roads and Highways says the continuing restoration paintings on a bridge at the Tema dual carriageway are supposed to shop lives because the bridge changed into in a dilapidated nation.
The Head of Public Relations of the Ministry, Nasir Ahmed Yartey, in an interview at the Citi Breakfast Show stated the inconvenience confronted with the aid of using commuters at the stretch because of the exercising is all to save you any incident of lack of existence or harm from the viable disintegrates of the bridge.
He defined that the ministry’s selection to restore the bridge changed into taken in earnest because of the horrible nation of the bridge over the Lakplakpa river.
“[Before the project]The bridge vibrates while you by skip on it. It changed into very dangerous. The dual carriageway itself, we're hoping that, with the aid of using August, we can begin a few paintings on it. We can not find the money to lose an unmarried existence. We want to undergo this inconvenience as a good way to shop lives,” he informed Citi Breakfast Show host, Bernard Avle on Wednesday, June 15, 2022.
Motorists plying the Accra-certain facet of the dual carriageway were lamenting approximately the worsening site visitors congestion at the stretch due to the construction, which commenced on Monday, June 13, 2022.
As a brief measure, the ministry has directed contractors operating at the Tema-Teshie hyperlink avenue to open the twin carriage segment of the street to permit motorists to apply that reach as an opportunity route.
Asked why the ministry is now giving the directive for the hyperlink avenue to be opened as an opportunity route, Mr Yartey stated, “the Tema-Teshie hyperlink avenue is a separate assignment and the contractors have their very own timetable so to inform them to halt for an afternoon or is something tough however given the urgency of the situation, it has become vital to inform them to halt for a while.”
Meanwhile, the motoring public has additionally been cautioned to apply opportunity roads consisting of Fertilizer Road, Tsui Bleoo Road, Spintex Road 1, Teshie Link, Adogon Highway and Burma Camp Roads 1 & 2 and comply with directional signs.
The bridge restores paintings at the Tema dual carriageway are anticipated to be finished with the aid of using Friday, June 17, 2022.
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