SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE-URBAN ROADS PLEADS

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The Department of Urban Roads is pleading with residents of Kumasi particularly commuters along the Kaasi-Ahodwo area to bear and cooperate with it as it works very hard to maintain the weak bridge over the Subin river along the Kaasi-Ahodwo link road in Kumasi. 

The link road was closed to traffic about two weeks ago by the Department for work to commence on the rehabilitation of the bridge which is has been in a very weak condition for sometimes now. 

Speaking to GBC’s Garden City Radio in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional Director of the Urban Roads Department, Theodore Quaye admitted the serious inconveniences that the closure of the link road is causing commuters, especially as there is no known alternative link road in the area.

 According to Mr. Quaye, the contract for the bridge rehabilitation, which has been awarded to the Building and Road Research Institute of the Council for Industrial and Scientific Research, is scheduled to be completed in four months.

 The completion of the project will help to prevent any possible catastrophe along the stretch. 

Touching on why no contractor has moved to site since the closure, the Urban Roads Director insisted that the contractor is mobilizing to move to site. 

However, the road has to be still closed to traffic at the time it was done in view of the deplorable nature of the bridge such that it could cause accident anytime soon. 

On the weakening steel bridge over the Susan river at Ahinsan, also in Kumasi that has as well become a death trap to both motorists and pedestrians, Mr. Quaye said funds have already been secured from the French Government for the extension and expansion of the Asokwa-Atonsu-Agogo road into a dual carriageway.

 The project will involve the construction of a new bridge. 

According to him, whiles the award of the construction project is going through the procurement processes and efforts are being made to relocate the Atonsu-Agogo terminal to pave way for the project to start, the bridge will be repaired to safeguard especially pedestrians from falling into the river.

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