Feeder roads to be upgraded after feasibility studies

A number of feeder roads in the Greater Accra and Eastern Regions are to be awarded on contract for surface dressing after detailed engineering studies have been completed on them.

The roads include the Aduakwa- Kwaku Panfo-Adieso feeder that links Greater Accra and Eastern Region, Weija Junction - Weija Township, Obuom - Amasaman road through Kojo Ashong, Ablekuma-Manhean-Obeyeyie Amasaman feeder roads.

Dr Richard W, Anane, Minister of Roads and Trnasport said this in Parliament when Mr Ernest Attuquaye Armah, NDC- Ga South asked the Minister when the roads would be tarred.

Mr Armah asked the Minister when the tarring of the Aduakwa to Adeiso through Kwaku Panfo, Weija Junction to Weija Township, Obuom to Amasaman through Kojo Ashong and Ablekuma through Afuman to Amasaman would commence.

Dr Anane said the section from Aduakwa to Obuom would be awarded for sectional regravelling by the end of this year, and the surface dressing would commence after feasibility and engineering studies and design have been completed.

The contract for the surface dressing of the Weija Junction to the township road was awarded last year and contract includes the access road to Ogblogo land fill site for solid waste disposal.

The Obuom Amasaman feeder road has a high level of traffic and requires upgrading to enable it to carry the large and heavy axle loads of trucks that win sand in the road corridor for construction in Greater Accra region and the adjoining district in Central and Eastern Regions.

Dr Anane, in another answer said the water crossing point of the River Adieso that separates Kofi Donkor and Odumansuaba villages has been selected for the installation of a steel bridge under the Spanish Bridges programme.

He said the design studies for the installation of the bridge have just commenced and the contract for the construction of the bridge would commence by the end of this year.

The Minister said when Mr. Ernest Attuquaye Armah, NDC- Ga South asked when the bridge between Kofi Donkor and Odumansuaba would be constructed to enable farmers in the area to transport foodstuffs to the market centres.