On the Accra-Tema highway, the government plans to build three interchanges and a number of footbridges for pedestrian crossings.
This is to safeguard the safety of vehicles and pedestrians using the highway, as well as the communities along the path.
Last Friday, Minister of Roads and Highways Kwasi Amoako-Attah announced this in Parliament.
It was in response to a question from Kofi Adams, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Buem of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who wanted to know what urgent steps the Ministry of Roads and Highways was taking to improve the safety of motorists on the Accra-Tema highway and the communities along it.
extension of highways
Mr Amoako-Attah, who is also the MP for Atiwa East, responded to the query by saying that there are plans to grow. converting a four-lane highway into a ten-lane highway
He stated it will have a four-lane motorway with access control, three urban roads, three interchanges, and a number of pedestrian crossing footbridges.
All safety precautions for motorists and pedestrians, he said, have been integrated into the blueprints for the highway extension works.
He went on to say that the planned urban motorways and interchanges will benefit the towns along the route.
Mr Amoako-Attah said the Ghana Highway Authority's Mobile Maintenance Unit II was currently filling potholes on the Accra-Tema Motorway with Portland Cement Premix concrete.
He claimed the Lakplaku Bridge, which had been closed to traffic for repair work, had reopened to traffic last Friday, and that everything was part of the plan.
Road between Makango and Salaga
Mr Amoako-Attah responded to another question from NDC MP for Salaga South, Zuwera Mohammed Ibrahimah, about when the Makango-Salaga and other roads under construction in her area would be completed to ease the people's transportation challenges, saying that work on the Makango-Salaga road had progressed to 25%.
He stated the Makango-Salaga road, which was 52 kilometers long, was being built under the contract "Rehabilitation of Tamale-Salaga-Makango."
He stated that the project will begin on January 21, 2021, and would be finished on January 20, 2023.
Other options
Within the Salaga and Akamade enclave in the East Gonja Municipality in the Savannah, on the Abromase-Akamade, Abromase-Kigbatito, Steel Bridge-Sarikingonakura, Abromase-Kijawu Battor, Salaga-Dagoubia, and Takpu-Silmunchu feeder roads.
Some of the roads were partially engineered, while others had terrible surface conditions, according to Mr Amoako-Attah.
He stated that there was presently no program on any of the aforementioned highways.
Mr Amoako-Attah, on the other hand, said that engineering design and condition surveys on the roads had been carried out in preparation for road upgrades.
He indicated that the interventions' procurement and implementation will be addressed in the 2023 budget.
Japekrom-Kwameoseikrom
In response to a question from the MP for Jaman South about when the contractor working on the Japekrom to Kwameoseikrom road will return to site after abandoning the project for several months, the Minister of Roads and Highways, Williams Okofo-Dateh, said the Department of Feeder Roads would conduct a reassessment of the contractor's capacity.
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