Madina-Adenta footbridge: locals congratulate for keeping their promise

General News on Friday, May 3, 2019

Source: Ghanaweb.com

2019-05-03

Some pedestrians from Madina and the surrounding area expressed their enthusiasm for the progress of work on one of the Madina-Adenta footbridge bridges, which began in November 2018.

Addressing some of them after the completion of the Seventh Day Adventist Crossroads (SDA) gateway in the suburb of Adenta, the majority of them have expressed their enthusiasm for the speed with which the contractors built the bridge and also congratulated the government for responding to their call to build a bridge for them.

"What led to the overhead was a student who was hit by a car and the government realized they needed to build overhead. So overhead is good and it will help most of us here. The government has done something very good that we all have to praise, "said a man in Ghanaweb.

Another businessman also said, "I think that's good because overhead costs are not difficult to cross. This is not so difficult because the time you lose waiting for cars to pbad before crossing the road allows you to take advantage of this time to cross overheads as it is easier than waiting that cars pbad before crossing. the construction of the suspension bridge, a number of pedestrians were killed due to the carelessness of the drivers. An upheaval began after a taxi overthrew a WASS student on the Adenta-Madina highway, causing her immediate disappearance on Thursday, November 8, 2018.

After this incident, residents blocked the road and burned the tires of the car to prevent car traffic from expressing themselves, expressing their anger at the frequent accidents and losses due to the non-availability of bridges.

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.