Madina-Adenta footbridge: Residents hail gov't for fulfilling promise

Some pedestrians in and around Madina have expressed excitement towards the progress of work on one of the Madina-Adenta Highway footbridge project, which commenced in November 2018.

Speaking to some of them after the completion of the footbridge at the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) junction, a suburb of Adenta, majority of them showed excitement at the speed the contractors used in constructing the footbridge and also praised the government for answering their call to construct a footbridge for them.

‘’What brought the overhead was because of a student who was knocked by a car and government realised that they needed to construct an overhead. So the overhead is good and it is going to help most of us here. Government has done something very good that we will all need to praise them ‘’ one man spoke to Ghanaweb.



Another businessman also said that “I think it is good because, the overhead is not difficult for people to cross. It is not that hard because the time that you waste in waiting for cars to pass before you cross the road you can use that time to cross the overhead because it is more easier than waiting for cars to pass before you cross.” Prior to the construction of the overhead bridge a number of pedestrians had been killed due to recklessness of drivers. An upheaval started after a taxi knocked down a female student of WASS on the Adenta-Madina Highway leading to her immediate demise on Thursday, November 8, 2018.

After that incident residents blocked the road and burnt car tyres to prevent the movement of vehicular traffic as a way of expressing their anger over the frequent accidents and casualties due to the non-availability of footbridges.


All the six footbridges at the various locations; Firestone, Madina-Zongo Junction, Redco Junction, Ritz Junction, SDA Junction and WASS were at various stages of completion.