Anyone who uses the Ofankor-Pokuase stretch on the N6 Highway is familiar with the heavy traffic on the road causing loss of valuable working hours everyday.
The frustration and exasperation commuters face constantly might soon be over, as it has been disclosed that the road will be open to traffic from next month.
Chief Resident Engineer on the Pokuase-Nsawam Highway project, Ing. Kwabena Bempong, disclosed that the 2.3km stretch on the N6 Highway will completed and opened to traffic by the end of September.
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He announced this in an interview on Accra-based Citi FM, were he said that currently the road is about 70 percent completed.
“We should be talking about 70 percent completion because what we have done, about 1.2 kilometres of asphalt, which is the first layer that we call the binder, has been completed.”
“The plan is that, by the end of September, we should have completed that portion and some other portions and we are going to open it to traffic to the China Mall except in areas where we are constructing overpasses and interchanges so we have the Amasaman interchange, and then Pobiman overpass and the other one at Medie,” Ing. Bempong added.
In addition, he provided a thorough and colourful explanation of the eight-lane road, stating that it will have two-lane service roads on either side of the project, which should lessen the volume of traffic on that particular stretch of road.
“Between Ofankor and the beginning of the Pokuase Interchange which we call The White House is about 2.3 kilometres and this will be an 8-lane; that is 4 lanes in each direction.
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“2-lanes in the middle and 2-lane service roads on either side of the road and then we have rebuilt the railway bridge to ensure that in the future when rehabilitation is taking place in the future, it can accommodate at least 2 railway lines against the single line that we previously had.”
