President directs expansion of Nsawam Bridge

President John Agyekum Kufuor has directed the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) as a matter of urgency to expand the Nsawam Bridge to alleviate traffic congestion.

Mr. Kwadwo Adjei-Darko, Minister of Roads and Highways, said during a visit to the bridge on Friday that a new bridge has been designed that provides for a footbridge for pedestrians.

He said engineers at the GHA have finished the design and are now evaluating the cost of the project, which would jointly be undertaken, with the Field Engineer Regiment of the Ghana Armed Forces.

According to him officials at GHA have said that the project would be completed in three months.

Motorists have complained bitterly about the narrow bridge, which has been the cause of heavy traffic jams on the Accra-Kumasi road.