Govt to complete unfinished road projects<\/b><\/p>\n Minister of Roads and Highways expresses gov’t’s plan to develop roads<\/p>\n Accra-Kumasi Road to be worked on this year<\/p>\n A new document from the Ministry of Roads and Highways has shown that this year, nine major road projects across the country will be undertaken by the government. <\/p>\n This, according to a graphic.com.gh report, would also affect construction works that are already at very advanced stages across the country, like the Accra-Kumasi dualisation project.<\/p>\n Already, the government, through the sector minister, Kwasi Amoako-Attah, has said the government is determined to develop the road sector.<\/p>\n He said many construction projects, including flyovers, bridges and roads, have also reached substantial levels of completion.<\/p>\n \u201cMany of the projects throughout the country have reached the stage of substantial completion; that is, above 80 per cent. It is going to be a completion galore from now until 2024,\u201d he said during the inspection of some road projects.<\/p>\n Roads<\/b><\/p>\n Among the captured roads in this document will be the Kumasi South and Western Bypass, the Kumasi Outer Ring Road, the Mamfe-Koforidua Road, the Oyibi-Dodowa-Somanya-Akuse Junction Road, the Accra Outer Ring Road, and the Asutuare Junction-Volivo Bridge Road.<\/p>\n The Eastern Corridor Road (Gbintiri-Kulungugu) and the Sawla-Wa road, are the rest that have been listed to be worked on in the year, the report adds.<\/p>\n Bridges<\/b><\/p>\n This year, there will be the construction of seven bridges. <\/p>\n The document explained that three of these bridges will be major projects, while there will be five new interchanges, all within the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area.<\/p>\n They will be the Adawso-Ekyi Amanfrom Bridge, which will stretch over the three-kilometre-wide portion of the Volta River and become the longest bridge in the country. These will include the Suame, Santasi and Airport interchanges.<\/p>\n The Buipe and the Yapei bridges, as well as the Daboya, Obuasi, Juanayilli and Nawunui bridges, will form the rest of the bridges to be constructed.<\/p>\n The report added that 42 road projects, between 12 and 96 per cent completion rate, would be continued in the year. <\/p>\n \u201cThe final feasibility study report will provide key inputs into the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Project,\u201d the document revealed.<\/p>\n Some of the specific roads to be completed in the year are stated as follows:<\/p>\n \u201cIn the Ahafo Region, the upgrading of the 17-kilometre Atronie-Mim road is 58 per cent complete, while in the Ashanti Region, the upgrading of the seven-kilometre Nsuta-Beposo Lot Three road is 94 per cent complete.<\/p>\n \u201cThe upgrading of the 30-kilometre Menji-Bui Road in the Bono Region is 41 per cent done, while the upgrading of the 35-kilometre Atebubu-Kwame Danso-Kwadwokrom road in the Bono East Region is 12 per cent done,\u201d the report stated.<\/p>\n A number of other major road projects around Tema and other parts of the country will also be worked on, the roads minister has said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A photo of the Pokuase Interchange Govt to complete unfinished road projects Minister of Roads and Highways expresses gov’t’s plan to develop roads Accra-Kumasi Road to be worked on this year A new document from the Ministry of Roads and Highways has shown that this year, nine major road projects across the country will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":719099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/83282605.295.jpg\" "\\"A")
A photo of the Pokuase Interchange<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n