Construction works have begun on the second phase of the Obetsebi-Lamptey Interchange project.
The second phase covers the third tier of work from the interchange towards the Abossey Okai road, as well as underground storm drains from the Hyundai stretch of the roundabout to Mpamprom, near Kaneshie.
The storm drain will help address the perennial flooding in the area.
A Daily Graphic visit to the site last Monday showed workers busily working on the double box 2X5-metre wide drain.
There were also earth-moving equipment and trucks digging and filling gulleys.
With the opening of the second tier flyover, which constituted the first phase of the project, to traffic last year, the gridlock which often occurred in the area has reduced.
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I am not a globetrotter but for the opportunities I have had to travel outside the country and from what I have read, I can confidently say without any fear of contradiction that nowhere in the world do motorists spend hours in traffic because of the collection or the payment of road tolls.
Again, I have never seen anywhere in the world where vehicles on dual carriageway, driving in the opposite direction faced oncoming vehicles just to pay road tolls; at least not in this 21st Century.
Over the years, many, including myself have written about the irrelevance of the tollbooth at Tuba Junction, along the Accra- Kasoa road, otherwise known as the Kasoa tollbooth.
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Ten months after schools were shut down in March 2020 to curb the spread of COVID-19, two sisters Benita and Benedicta have missed school; but they are at home and do not have to face the daily risks in the streets.
The six-year-old twins no longer have to walk close to one-kilometre from home to school and back daily using pedestrian walkways that have dangerous streets lights.
These class one pupils of the Rev. Lartey Adotey Memorial School at Adabraka, Accra, have to be guided by their mother or a guardian to walk safely past several galvanised street light poles with sellotaped or naked cables within arms length of the little girls as they walk, a situation that is deeply worrying to their mother.