{"id":732972,"date":"2019-10-28T19:44:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T19:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/28\/heavy-traffic-as-tema-motorway-floods\/"},"modified":"2019-10-28T19:44:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T19:44:06","slug":"heavy-traffic-as-tema-motorway-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/28\/heavy-traffic-as-tema-motorway-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Traffic As Tema Motorway Floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Scenes from the flooded motorway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is heavy vehicular traffic along the Spintex road and around the Accra Mall due to flooding on the Tema Motorway.<\/p>\n<p>A heavy downpour on Monday October 28, 2019, led to the submerging of the Motorway.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers travelling to Tema are being forced to divert to the Spintex road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-250614\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/850f3755-787c-465f-95dc-c7cf0ca7c015-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Efforts are being made by officials of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO).<\/p>\n<p>DGN Online\u2019s visit to the Spintex revealed a thick traffic, causing inconvenience to passengers and drivers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Melvin Tarlue<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scenes from the flooded motorway There is heavy vehicular traffic along the Spintex road and around the Accra Mall due to flooding on the Tema Motorway. A heavy downpour on Monday October 28, 2019, led to the submerging of the Motorway. Drivers travelling to Tema are being forced to divert to the Spintex road. 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