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Railway Development Minister Joe Ghartey
The rail sector has the capacity to transform Ghana's economy from a middle-income country to a world country, "said Railway Development Minister Joe Ghartey..
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"The rail sector is the only sector that will transform this economy," Ghartey said on Tuesday when relaunching the Accra-Tema rail service in Accra.
"I am convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that in the same way that the railways when they were introduced in 1898 to Sekondi transformed the economy of the Gold Coast of the time and that towards the end of In the 1920s and 1930s, cocoa producers had grown so large that Ghana or the Gold Coast of the time became the world's largest cocoa producer and the richest British colony.
"In the same way, if we take seriously the development of the railways in the next 20 to 30 years, our economy, which is a middle-income country, will become the first country in the world."
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Accra-Tema train service
Hundreds of people joined the minister, including Information Minister Kwadwo Oppong Nkrumah, chief executive of the Ghana Railway Company Limited, John Essel, and Black Stars coach Kwasi Appiah. board of a test of the shuttle Accra-Tema.
The shuttle should offer free rides for the next two weeks before the start of its commercial operations at the price of 5 GHC per pbadenger.
The shuttle has a multi-unit diesel train (DMU) that can seat 360 people, allowing dozens of other people to hit the road for a trip of one and a half hours (1.5 hours) ).
It is powered by onboard diesel engines and does not require separate locomotives because the engines are incorporated in one or more cars.
The train will leave the Community 1 station at 6:00 am daily and will make stops at Tema's fishing port, Tema Harbor Station, Asoprochana Station, Nungua Barrier Gate (mile 11). ), in Addogonno (thousand 9),
It will make a return trip at 17:40 from Accra Central Station to Tema. The train will make stops at Odaw station (Circle), Achimota,
Encroach on railways
Aboard the Accra-Tema shuttle, GraphicOnline observed that some small traders were sitting with their goods near the railroad.
It will be recalled that the activities of intruders disrupted the scheduled reintroduction of pbadenger rail services on January 8th.
The intruders took advantage of the Christmas and New Year holidays to return to the railway reserve (buffer zone).
Circle, Avenor, Graphic Road, Achimota, Nyaho Clinic and Dzorwulu are among the areas where people live and trade close to the railway line and level crossings.
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