The Ministry of Roads and Highways has come under pressure to demolish all the 38 tollbooths across the country which are not in use to prevent accidents and optimise road safety.
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Driving on the 19-kilometre Accra-Tema Motorway at night is hellish, as street lights installed recently have failed to provide the expected visibility.
About two thirds of the stretch has been fixed with solar-powered street lights but motorists are still complaining about poor visibility, especially on the outer lanes.
Darkness has engulfed the motorway for a number of years now as a result of malfunctioning street lights.
Observations
However, the Daily Graphic observed last Sunday that solar-powered street lights had been installed entirely on one end, from the entrance of the motorway near the Accra Mall to the end in Tema.
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Indiscipline on the country’s only motorway, the Accra-Tema Motorway, is brewing danger for motorists who ply the 19-kilometre (km) expressway on a daily basis.
A Daily Graphic team that monitored activities on the road that most befits the description of highway for about five hours last Wednesday observed that the illegal activities along the 19-kilometre motorway were mainly perpetrated by drivers, slum dwellers, tricycle riders, farmers and herdsmen.
The dangers include pedestrian and livestock knockdowns, car crashes and other accidents thatlead to the loss of lives or injury to drivers, passengers and pedestrians.
The team also observed that there were growing slums and shanty towns along the highway whose dwellers had converted the bare land serving as buffer between the motorway and the settlements to vegetable farms, with others herding cattle at different sections of the motorway.