Congested Capital To Build Modern Car Park

ACCRA, Ghana (PANA) - Construction of Ghana's second modern car park will begin in the year to ease congestion on a busy road network where indiscriminate parking by commercial drivers causes traffic jams, especially during rush hours.

The three-tier car park will be built at the Kaneshie market complex, in the west of Accra, to ease vehicular congestion on the Obetsebi Lamptey Circle-Malam road and accommodate more vehicles.

The seven million-US-dollar park would also ease the congestion of sellers who have abandoned their stores to trade at the main lorry station thus causing a heavy human traffic.

Kwame Amporful, general manager of Accra Market Limited, told Ghana News Agency that the project would be completed in two years.

It will have a capacity of 325 vehicles. The ground floor would take buses, the first floor 84 taxis, with the second floor taking 158 private cars.

Accra City Car Park, Ghana's first multi-storey car park, located in the city centre, began trial operations in April.

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Merchant Bank, First African Group, and Labour Enterprise Trust own the 500-car capacity park.

It took two years to complete the 5.5 million-dollar park.