Roads And  Highways Mininster Outlines Plan  ...To Redevelop Major Roads In Accra and Kumasi

“The scope of work of the projects are as follow: 10-lane 19.5-kilometer motorway (four lanes of reinforced concrete freeway, six lanes of Urban Highway), reconstruction of Tetteh Quarshie to Apenkwa (5.7km), remodeling of Tetteh Quarshie, Apenkwa and Achimota interchanges, and the construction of five new interchanges will be done,” Mr. Amoako-Atta disclosed.

Speaking on Asempa FM, the sector Minister mentioned the interchanges as Lashibi, Abattoir, Teshie Link, Fiesta Royale, and Neoplan junction which were on the pipeline to remodel by the government.

Mr. Amoako-Atta pointed out that there is a road project name called the Accra Tema Motorway, saying that "this is just the road construction project's name which does not mean that its implementation policies only to be done in the Greater Accra Region alone."

He pointed out that the condition and terms within the implementation of this project would equally cut across all the sixteen (16) existing regions in the country.

"We are not talking just about the construction of 19.2-kilometer road and that the road project which is six-lane start from Tema motorway roundabout to Accra Tetteh Quarshie interchange," he stressed.

He maintained that the road contractor Multa Angle Construction Limited is currently on the site and that the government is in the process of finalizing a few issues with him for the contractor to officially start the project and called for calm,  saying that there is no cause for alarm.

He insisted that"if you didn't see road construction project machines on the site, that does not mean that nothing is happening at all on the road."

The roads Minister mentioned that the contractor and his team are doing a lot of work to start the project of the six-lane road.

He asserted that between the Tema motorway roundabout to the Tetteh Quarshie interchange, "one should see that the entire Accra Tema motorway had been urbanized to the extent that there lot of settlements on that stretch of the road.

"The contractor in here in Ghana means, he is here for us to finalize a lot of things with him, because there is a number of work on the project and its fundings and other things.

"We have some of the funding to be used on the project that is why l am saying that if you look at the scopes of the works on the project we want to make sure that we have enough funds for the project.

"Because if l tell you the scopes of the works the contractor and his team have started doing on the project, you make may happy," he explained.

He pointed out that there is a lot of congestion on the Tetteh Quarshie and Accra Tema Motorway stretch of the road which has become a major challenge to the contractor to start the work.

He noted that these challenges need time to fix in order to ensure the remodeling of the Tetteh Quarshie interchange.

He pointed out that the time that they would complete the project, the current congestion situation would be minimized to ensure free movement of the vehicle in the area.

He said between Tema motorway roundabout and Tetteh Quarshie interchange, there have been designed to build the four interchange which is going to affect the Accra Shopping Mall.

He added that plans were underway for the government to redesign the existing Apankwa interchange which is a dual carriage road system flyover in Accra.

He indicated that it is part of the six-lane, 14-kilometre (8.7 mi) George Walker Bush Highway constructed under the Millennium Challenge Account.

He added "If you look at the current modernization design, four interchanges were within the design and it continues to Apankwa interchange which would link to Neoplan junction enclave near the famous Fieta Royale Hotel 

According to the Roads and Highways Minister, there is a road intersection at Fieta Royale Hotel, and at that place, the government is going to build another interchange in order to ease the traffic in the area.

He mentioned that the construction of some major roads in Kumasi including Ketasi, Suame, Ahordzo, and Oforikrom Interchanges had reached advanced stages for the starting of the construction of the projects in 2022 to improve the road networks infrastructural development in Kumasi metropolis and adjoining communities.