Safety priority with Madina-Adentan footbridges – Minister of the Road

General News on Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-06-11

The Ministry of Roads and Highways is taking steps to ensure that the last bridges for the Madina-Adentan highways are in a very good state of safety once completed.

The Minister of Roads and Highways, Kwasi Amoako-Atta, said the ministry was putting in place measures to discourage the deterioration of newly built bridges on the Madina-Adentan highway with signs and signs. display.

Kwasi Amoako-Atta said the gateways would be ready for use by 1 July.

"We discuss things that affect security and we will improve that. I have a department of security within my department, which works with my colleague Minister of Transport, so that all security issues are dealt with, "he said.

One of the Madina-Adenta Expressway bridges, which began in November 2018, was completed in May this year.

Pedestrians began using the bridge to cross the highway.

The six gateways to the different places; Firestone, the Madina-Zongo, Redco Junction, Ritz Junction, SDA Junction and WASS junctions were at various stages of completion.

This stretch of highway has recorded many deaths in pedestrian foot accidents that caused a civil uprising when a high school student from West Africa was killed while on the move. He was crossing the road.

More than a hundred people have reportedly been overtaken on the stretch since 2018 due to lack of bridges and defective traffic lights.

When a taxi on Thursday, November 8, 2018; spilled a WASS student on the Adenta-Madina highway, residents blocked the road and protested the non-availability of pedestrian bridges.

On November 9, the Interdepartmental Committee on Roads and Highways, Transportation and the Interior issued a statement that work would begin in a week (November 16).

However, some residents organized a peaceful protest on Monday, November 12, 2018 to remind people of the need for footbridges to protect pedestrian lives.

Officials from the Ghana Highway Authority then contracted six contractors to complete the sectional bridges.