Mr Kwesi Amoako-Atta, the Minister of Roads and Highways, says 6,000kilometers (km) out of 11,000km of roads are to be completed under government’s second year of roads programme.
Addressing a news conference in Accra yesterday, the minister said the 6,000km of roads to be completed falls under critical cocoa, town roads and asphalt overlays under the Sinohydro Master Project Support Facility.
The roads to be completed within the period are;Navrongo-Naga, the Wa-Bulenga-Yaala, Salaga-Ekumdipe- Kpandai road which is 60% complete, upgrading of Yagaba to Mankarigu road, as well as the upgrading of Daboya to Mankarigu road among a host of road projects.
“As part of government’s year of road programme, 81 critical roads with total length of 2,167.2 km were identified in all the 16 regions for rehabilitation at a cost of GHS 7.827 billion,” he said.
Under the cocoa roads programme, the Minister noted that 325 projects are currently ongoing across cocoa growing areas,establishing that 4,853 km of the roads are being constructed at a cost of GHS14.511 billion.
He mentioned some of these roads asAboabo-Esikuma-Dunkwa, Have-Hohoe, SefwiWiawso-Akontobra, Dodokorpe-BoraeJunctiona and Hohoe-Jasikan among others.
He said 563.3 km of roads are to be completed under the town roads programme at a total cost of GHS 1.083 billion, including the rehabilitation of Gambaga, Nalerigu and Walewale town roads, as well as phase 1 of the upgrading of Prestea and Tepa town roads among others.
Touching on asphalt overlay programme, the Minister said “the Ministry of Roads and Highways has programmed to undertake 1,500km of asphaltic overlay in major towns and cities across the country including hospitals, schools, courts, police barracks, army garrisons and other security service compounds.”
According to him 1,301km of roads will be completed under this programme in towns such as Obuasi, Kumasi, Akwatia, Oda, Winneba, Swedru and Berekum among others, at a cost of GHS 1.665 billion, stating that by the end of this government 3,000km of roads would have been completed.
On the Sinohydro Master Project Support Facility, Mr. Amoako-Atta said 4 road projects are ongoing, including 2 interchanges. The road projects, he said, include the Accra inner city roads, Kumasi inner city roads, dualisation of Adentan to Dodowa and the rehabilitation of Ajumako to Afransie road.
Mr Kwesi Amoako-Atta also disclosed that government has earmarked 120 out of 200 programmed bridges in various parts of the country for completion this year.
Among these expected bridges areDikpe, Iture and Ankobra Bridge, the Volivo cable stay bridge, Adawso to Ekyeamanfrom Bridge over the Volta River in Afram Plains, 89 Mabey Bailey Bridges as well as the reconstruction of Buipe, Yapei and Daboya Bridges.
This, he said, the contract has been awarded with preliminary designs submitted pending approval for work to begin.
Touching on completed bridges in the country, he said 69 of steel bridges across the feeder roads network are completed and will be launched under the Sinohydro Project, 20 bridges rehabilitation on trunk roads network, 13 Spanish bridges and 7 Northern Bridges in Kulungugu, Garu1, Garu2, Doninga, Sisili and Ambalara have been completed and opened to traffic.
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