KMA initiates moves to ease congestion on Tafo road

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), has initiated moves to ensure the free flow of vehicular traffic on the Old-Tafo road.

As part of the moves, the assembly is constructing a parking lot for long vehicles at Tafo and selected some by-pass roads including Tafo-Krofrom, Tafo-Moshie Zongo, Tafo-Breman and Tafo-Pankrono-Buokrom for re-shaping. Mr Samuel Nuamah-Donkor, Ashanti Regional Minister, who doubles as acting Chief Executive of the KMA, at the weekend supervised the clearing of the site for work on the project to commence. He warned that drivers of long vehicles who park on the sides of the road after completion of the project would be arrested and fined.

The Regional Minister observed that apart from the heavy vehicular traffic, the large number long vehicles and cargo trucks, which park on the sides of the road, block the view of pedestrians crossing resulting leading to the incidence of people being knockdown at Tafo. He said when the sides are cleared of the long vehicles the road would have three lanes, two of which would be used during the morning peak hours by motorists heading towards Kumasi and vice-versa during the peak hours of evening.