The reconstruction and expansion of the Accra-Tema Motorway commenced on Tuesday, January 2, 2024. The 19.5-kilometer project involves a 10-lane span from the Tetteh Quarshie roundabout to the Tema roundabout. Maripoma Enterprise Limited, a Ghanaian-owned construction company, is supervising the project. During a tour of road projects in Accra, the Minister of Roads and Highways, […]
The Ministry of Roads and Highways has clarified that the government has not reinstated toll collection across the country. In a press statement issued Tuesday (July 26, 2022) evening to clarify the Finance Minister’s Statement on the Collection of Road Tolls in the 2022 Mid-Year Budget Review, the ministry stated: “the government has not reinstated toll collection across the country.” […]
The Roads Minister says he will be spending the night on the Accra-Tema motorway to ensure it is reopened to traffic tomorrow. Kwasi Amoako-Atta said he cannot enjoy his “comfortable home” at the time his engineers are working tirelessly to complete the repair works on the road. While inspecting the work on Wednesday, June 15, […]
It is about 24 hours more until Accra-Tema Motorway resumes normal operations. For nearly two weeks it’s witnessed heavily vehicular traffic after a few meters were cordoned off for repair works on the Lakplakpa bridge to be done. This move is being executed by the Roads and Highways Ministry in collaboration with the Ghana Highway […]
The government has paid GH¢3.6 million in compensation to persons affected by phase one of the Accra-Tema Beach Road Expansion Project. The project contractor, China Ganzu International Corporation for Economic and Technical Cooperation (CGICETC), has revealed that the compensation covered buildings and other structures demolished to make way for the project. The payments were made […]
The government will start work on nine new major road projects in parts of the country this year and complete many others that are at advanced stages of completion. Documents secured from the Roads and Highways Ministry indicate the new road projects as the Accra-Kumasi dualisation (in sections), the Kumasi South and Western Bypass and […]
The Ministry of Roads and Highways has denied an allegation that the sector Minister, Mr Kwasi Amoako Atta has usurped the role of the Road Fund Board, using his power and influence to single-handedly determine how contractors should be paid and who should be paid first. A group, identified as Concerned Road Contractors had alleged […]
Government has pledged to fix the roads affected by floods in some parts of the Upper West Region. Over the weekend, torrential rainfall caused a flooding incident which destroyed roads and bridges with many farmlands submerged. Exploring the area to assess the extent of the damage, the Roads and Highways Minister, Kwasi Amoako-Attah pledged that […]
The government plans to construct an estimated 6,000 kilometres of roads nationwide over the next four years. Addressing a press conference today in Accra, the Minister of Roads and Highways, Mr Kwasi Amoako-Attah said 6,000 kilometres of roads out of the over 11,000 kilometres of programmed roads will be completed in President Akufo-Addo’s second term. […]
Feasibility studies are underway on the possibility of relocating the Kasoa toll booth as part of measures to help eliminate the vehicular traffic bottleneck on that section of the Accra-Winneba highway, the Minister of Roads, Mr Kwasi Amoako Atta has disclosed. He said the ministry has realised that it is impossible to expand the gates at […]
The Minister for Roads and Highways, Hon. Kwasi Amoako-Atta, has assured the people of Salaga, and, by extension, the people of the Savannah Region that the 138-kilometre Tamale-Salaga-Makango Road will be completed by the end of the year. Speaking at Kpalbe, in the Salaga North constituency of the Savannah Region, Hon. Kwasi Amoako-Atta, on Monday, […]
The Roads and Highways Minister Kwasi Amoako Atta has said it has secured approval from the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) to initiate the private takeover of the management of toll booths across the country. Mr. Amoako Atta, believes the move will ensure the efficient running of the booth for improved revenue generation. The toll booth […]
