An activity to somewhat decommission the tollbooth structures on the Accra-Tema Motorway has been begun by the Ghana Highways Authority (GHA).
The activity, assessed at GH¢1 million, will see the primary stalls, two each, arranged on the fundamental motorway inward path obliterated.
The stalls outside the vitally two path, won't be contacted. These are the extra stalls that were important for the augmentation project at the tollgates to assist with facilitating gridlock when the cost was functional.
Every one of the substantial chunks on which the tollgates were sitting will be pulled down, the Ghana Roadways Authority has told Realistic On the web.
The neglected tollgates have turned into a spot for mishaps lately, with a new mishap last Sunday killing one individual.
There have been public grumblings about the neglected tollgate structures on the Motorway.
In May 2022, a tipper truck collided with two of the corners leaving two people harmed.
Drivers have additionally griped that the tollgates are not apparent particularly around evening time as there are no lights at the spots or the reflectors are faulty.
Decommissioning program
The Head of Street Wellbeing and Climate at the GHA, Joseph Atsu Amedzake, told Realistic Internet based's Della Russel Ocloo that game plans have been finished for the halfway expulsion of the tollgates to make voyaging a lot simpler for suburbanites.
"We are by and by preparing assets, hardware and staff to empower us begin work right away" he said.
As a component of the activity, three paths on which the stalls are sitting, reserved for expulsion have been cordoned off.
At the point when Realistic Internet based visited the Accra end of the tollgate at around 2:50 pm on Thursday [Sept 7, 2023], it was seen that intelligent cones had been put inside the cordoned region to caution drivers about the barricade of a portion of the paths.
That, Mr Amedzake said was a wellbeing measure to forestall mishaps and to guarantee that drivers know about the circumstance around the tollgates.
"Meanwhile, we are likewise preparing to introduce sun based fueled streetlamps at the Tema and Accra finishes of the tollgates to address the security worries while we search for an extremely durable arrangement of lighting the whole motorway.
Potholes
Mr Amedzake likewise said that fixing works of the discouraged regions along the motorway which keep on presenting risk to suburbanites will before long start to address the wellbeing concerns.
The potholes have likewise turned into a significant reason for gridlock along the stretch which recently was the most favored quickest course for some suburbanites going all through Accra to Tema and different pieces of the country.
Mr Amedzake engaged drivers and suburbanites to practice alert while utilizing the impacted areas of the motorway, while additionally reassuring them to submit to as far as possible in order to assist with forestalling mishaps.