Motorway expansion: Highway Authority announces road diversions

• Posted on August 21, 2018
• by Ellsamwise King
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The Ghana Highways Authority has announced that effective Sunday August 26, 2018, it will divert a number of routes on the Accra-Tema Motorway roundabout.

This, according to the Authority, is to prevent heavy vehicular traffic, as the construction of the three tier interchange at the roundabout begins.

Motorists heading towards areas places such as Kpong, Akosombo and Aflao, may now have to find alternatives routes along the Motorway through to the end of the roundabout.

In an interview, Joseph Yeboah, Project Coordinator at Highways Authority, he said alternative roads have been made available during this period to ease pressure on motorists.

“The alternative routes are routes that will help you bypass the Tema Motorway Roundabout so for example if you are heading towards Aflao you don’t need to come to the roundabout. What you need to do is to look out for the alternative routes and the signs that we have placed.”

“To lessen the burden of being in traffic or inconveniencing motorists we have provided all these alternative routes around the roundabout so that motorists can get to their destinations in good time”, he added.

Mr. Yeboah further cautioned motorists to obey road signs as they drive towards the motorway roundabout.

“Watch out for the MTTD police who will take you through the detour routes which are newly constructed and asphalted and marked to let you negotiate the roundabout with ease.”

Meanwhile, the Ghana Police Service says it will deploy a minimum of 20 officers to ensure law and order on the alternative routes to help ease the pressure around the roundabout.

ASP Paul Bruce Amoah, Second in Command at the Tema Regional MTTD said adequate preparations have been made in that regard.

“We are going to deploy about 20 police officers as from Sunday to direct traffic along the detour roads. They will be placed at all the intersections along the detour roads and they will remain at point until such a time motorists will be conversant with the detour roads. Adequate preparations have been put in place and we are going to contain the situation.”

The Motorway expansion project

The Tema Motorway Roundabout Project, is expected to improve the traffic situation in Tema and its environs and to significantly facilitate cargo flow in and out of the Tema Port.

The project, which started early in October 2016 after the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, was financed by the Meridian Port Services (MPS)— as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility—  in collaboration with the Ministry of Roads & Highways at the cost of GHC30 million.

The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA, said the project was one of the many interventions needed to create easy access to the Tema Port, especially for heavy duty trucks being the main category of vehicles plying the route.

Source: CNR