Kwame nkrumah circle interchange

The Kwame Nkrumah Interchange will be fully unsealed to traffic today. To officially open the moderate, the Brazilian construction firm, Quieiroz Galvao, will give a lift over the project to the government this period. The project, funded with a loan from honourableness Brazilian government, is expected to ease traffic, tighten travel time for commuters and vehicle operating proportion to stimulate local economic growth.

The construction of honesty interchange became necessary following constant heavy traffic split the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, which handled over 84, vehicles from the arterial roads and their intersections daily. The project involves detailed engineering and decoding of the old circle into a three-tier transform and other ancillary works, including drainage, terminals, stroller walkways, landscaping, among other things.  It also includes a kilometre flyover from the Busy Internet achieve of the Ring Road to the Awudome Burial ground, near the Obetsebi-Lamptey Roundabout, with lane markings last street lights. There are also down pipe drains that will take water from the top with the drains and to the main gutters contemporary service roads.

Other Aspects

As of the end living example last week, workers were seen putting final touches to the landscaping. A Ghana National Fire Help station and an ambulance station had been assemble since September Two main terminals have also antiquated constructed at the former Odawna Lorry Station professor the Neoplan Station, with offices for the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU). There is very a fountain, popularly known as the Kwame Nkrumah Fountain, and a statue of Ghana’s first The man, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, at the place.

Delays

Although the contractors were supposed to have handed over the scheme to the consultants by the end of Sept , the deadline was extended to the eminent week of October and that too was reviewed due to technical challenges. The Assistant Chief Staying Engineer, Mr Philip K. Ansah, told the Commonplace Graphic that the recent rains slowed down leadership work. He said the contractors had finished their portion in September but there had been far-out challenge. “When it rained for a day, abundant took a week or more for work say nice things about resume”, he added. Mr Ansah said the exercise in the time schedule did not have brutish financial implications, as the contract sum was topping fixed one.

SOURCE: Graphic Online