The Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako Atta, has directed the Chief Executive of the Ghana Highway Authority, to put sign posts at the frontage of toll booths along the motorway.
The order is to prevent articulator drivers who usually pay their axle load weight bills a few metres ahead of the toll booth, from causing traffic along the motorway.This according to him, this will make it easy for other vehicles to assess the toll booth.
Mr. Amoako Atta, added, that his Ministry will not allow indiscipline on the roads, noting that National Security operatives and the Police, will be deployed to check indiscipline on the roads.
The 19-kilometer long motorway linking Accra to Ghana’s industrial and manufacturing hub, Tema, was one of the prestigious projects conceived and built by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
The motorway was to link the harbour city of Tema to Accra. It is the only Motorway in Ghana. The 19-kilometer Highway, some have argued, no longer serves its purpose, due to uncontrolled human activities, such as illegal settlements and bus stops created along the stretch.
It is for this reason that the Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako Atta, has warned those in charge of collecting the axle load weight bills to relocate from their current position, to beyond the toll booth.
He said the axle load weight, which controls loading at the ports of entry and limits the amount of cargo loaded onto a truck to a maximum load limit is an exercise he supports, but must be done devoid of creating traffic congestion.
The Greater Accra Regional Director of the Ghana Highway Authority, Ing. Lawrence Lloyd Lankwei Lamptey, said the street lights on the stretch of the motorway is being worked on and will be ready by the end of this year.
Meanwhile, the Ministry has also resolved to evict squatters along the Accra- Tema motorway within two weeks
Meanwhile, the Ministry has also resolved to evict squatters along the Accra- Tema motorway within two weeks
