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General News on Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Source: Graphic.com.gh
2019-01-22
A signpost at Lapaz has been turned into a billboard
A number of signposts in Accra have lost their raison d'être as they have been degraded with all kinds of posters.
Traffic signs are intended to warn, inform and regulate traffic and human traffic, including motorcycles, vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians and other road users.
A daily study by Graphic Graphic on about twenty streets in Accra showed that more than 100 panels had to be covered in a city with road accidents.
In 2018, the Accra region recorded 4,139 accident cases.
The situation where advertisers; registered and unregistered, place posters and banners on signboards, rendering them unusable.
There are also cases where billboards have been positioned to block some panels.
Some of the affected roads in Accra are Independence Avenue, Kanda Road, Kojo Thompson Road, Dr. Busia Road, John Evans Atta Mills High Street, N1 Road and Graphic Road.
Posters, ranging from very small stickers to larger A2 size ones, include political campaign posters, advertising posters for events, announcements of vacancies, product sales and signage indicating direction.
Department of Urban Roads
When Patricia Daily contacted the head of engineering of the Roads Safety Unit of the Urban Roads Department, Ms. Patricia Onny, said the consequences were enormous and could be life-threatening for all users of the road.
"For example, if there is a retarder and the panel is covered, the person driving it can hit it and cause injury, death or damage to those in the vehicle as well as the vehicle. to the vehicle itself.
Again, if there is a zebra crossing and the panel is covered, the driver would not know it, he would only zoom in and the result would be clear, "she said.
Collective responsibility
Ms Onny said that road safety is a collective responsibility and that the situation falls within the competence of the control agencies.
"In the Department of Urban Roads, everyone has their duty. We can not go strong. The badembly and the police are there to help Urban Roads solve its implementation problems, "she said.
"I think it will be good if you also talk to the mayor about it.
There should be regulations for everything if you manage a city and I know there are some.
That's why I want you to go to the badembly and discover it; because it is a problem that the whole should be able to manage. "
For his part, Mr. Esmond Ahiadekey, Deputy Chief of Public Affairs of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), said the issue was to be addressed by the Department of Urban Roads.
NRSC
When contacted, Mr. Kwame Koduah Atuahene, Head of Communications at the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), told the Daily Graphic that this development was the result of general public indiscipline.
"If motorists are denied the benefit of these signs in their use of roads, the consequence is obvious. So, this is not a practice that should be encouraged, "he said.
Mr. Atuahene argued that, in the face of a lack of discipline, the responsible law enforcement agency should treat those responsible for the practice in accordance with the law. to the law.
Police
When contacted, the Department of Transportation and Motor Traffic (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service stated that the developments had not been brought to his attention.
The MTTD Commander of Central Accra, Deputy Commissioner of Police (PVA), Mr. Anderson Fosu-Ackaah, is committed to seizing the case.
"It's against the rules; we will have a team to go around and apprehend those responsible, "he said.
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