The Minister of Roads and Highways, Mr Kwasi Amoako-Attah, has revealed government intends to dualise all single carriage highways across the country, calling them old-fashioned.
According to him, single-carriage highways where cars cross each other are a thing of the past and would all be dualised.
“Government direction, government policy is to try as much as possible to dualise all highways. We are getting too late on these things. Single-carriageways, where vehicles cross each other, is old, a thing of the past,” the Minister said.
Mr Amoako-Attah made the remarks when he was inspecting ongoing works on the Tarkwa-Agona Nkwanta road, as part of his tour of the Western Region.
He called for the Ministry of Roads and Highways to take note and ensure all future contracts are awarded for dual-carriage roads.
“The whole world has moved from that…We’ve recorded many fatalities because vehicles collide”, he stated.
Amoako-Attah added that decent places should be constructed on the highways where people can rest and ease themselves when they’re tired as is often done in Europe.
“This is what I was talking about and some people who didn’t understand me made a mockery of me that I have said tollbooths would be turned into toilets,” he said, referring to a previous controversy.
Mr Amoako-Attah said that the government can privatise the use of the washrooms when they have made provisions for them on the highways.
The civil engineer for Gabriel Coutou Rango Consortium, Mr Peter Quarshie, in an interview, explained that the contract was approved in July 2022 to commence work after the sod-cutting on 1 September 2021 by President Akufo-Addo.
He added that they started work two months ago and out of the 30-kilometre drain works, they have done 1.5 kilometres as well as 10 kilometres of widening works and completed 80 per cent of the clearing works on the road.
Source: theGhanaianVoice.Com