Accra-Obetsebi Lamptey and
Pokuase Interchanges will open 25 November
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The projects are expected to ease congestion on the
corridor and ensure redistribution of vehicular movement while providing
comfort and convenience for motorists.
The government will on Wednesday (25 November) open the first
phases of the Obetsebi Lamptey and the Pokuase Interchanges under construction
to traffic, Kwasi Amoako-Atta, the Minister of Roads and Highways has said.
The Obetsebi Lamptey
Interchange, which links Kaneshie, Graphic Road, Kwame Nkrumah Circle and
Abossey Okai, is 99% complete while the Pokuase project, on the other hand, is
87% complete.
The projects when completed are expected to ease
congestion on the corridor and ensure redistribution of vehicular movement
while providing comfort and convenience for motorists.
Interchange
The Minister, who said this during a working visit to
inspect the progress of the projects, explained that although the first phase
of the Obetsebi Interchange was expected to be completed next year, the urgency
with which the engineers worked, made it possible to significantly complete it
before its expected completion time.
Amoako-Atta explained that the second phase of the
Obetsebi Lamptey Interchange which would be a bridge overlapping the first
phase towards the ‘Accra Central Mosque’ and the third phase, towards the
‘Kaneshie First Light’ would commence immediately after the commissioning of the
first phase.
Interchange
He said the Pokuase Interchange was ready to serve
the public, adding that it was not necessary to complete the whole project
before opening it to traffic considering the huge congestion usually on the
Accra-Kumasi road.
Owusu Sekyere Antwi, the chief resident engineer of
the Obetsebi Lamptey Interchange project, explained that they were going to
undertake a load testing exercise where physical loads would be placed on the
bridge to test its capacity.
They would also take measurements of the interchange,
do road line markings, directional signs and fix road furniture on the
interchange, he said.
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Kwabena Bempong, the resident engineer,
Pokuase Interchange, said the project bridge works were 75% complete and the
team was working on the ramps and asphalt.
He said tier one, parts of tier two and three would
be open to traffic from next week.
However, tier-four would be delivered by March 2021.
For the Accra-Kumasi road, Bempong noted that it was
almost 90% complete, while the Awoshie-Kwabenya road was 96% complete.
He said they were fixing street lights, road line
markings and road signs, to open other right and left turn roads to control the
anticipated traffic congestion as a result of Christmas festivity.
Interchange
The US$84 million Pokuase Interchange project,
jointly funded by the African Development Bank and the Government of Ghana, was
commissioned in July 2018 to promote sustainable economic growth, convenience
and safe transportation for motorists and the people of the area.
The project, which is a part of the Accra Urban
Transport projects, was awarded to Messrs China Zhongmei Engineering Company
Limited.
The Obetsebi Lamptey Interchange was awarded to M/S Queiroz
Galvao-UK International, an engineering company.
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