President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Wednesday commissioned Phase One of the Pokuase Interchange, as part of his 2-day tour of the Greater Accra Region.
The interchange, which commenced in April 2018, was originally proposed as a 3-tier single-point urban interchange but the contractor, after undertaking a value engineering assessment, proposed to construct a 4-tier Stack Interchange, which was approved by the Ministry for Roads and Highways.
President Akufo-Addo, at the commissioning ceremony, opened the traffic tier-3 of the interchange, which is the road from Awoshie to Accra, as well as the road from Kumasi to Awoshie.
The project Engineers told the President that other tiers of the Interchange would be opened for use by the general public and motorists in the second week of December, adding that “at the end of March, we would have completed the entirety of the 4th tier.”
In addition to this, President Akufo-Addo was told that some five kilometres of storm drains have been completed “to ensure we don’t have flooding in the downstream.”
As of December 2019, when the President last visited the Interchange, some extra routes which had become necessary after a review of the works were advanced and were completed before the end of 2019, with over 10 kilometres of local community roads completed within the catchment area of the interchange.
The contractor, Zhongmei Engineering Group Ltd, at the time told the President that four kilometres of asphalt dual carriageway had been completed for the Awoshie section of the project, with landscaping, street lighting, road signs and pedestrian facilities underway.
Also, one kilometre of asphalt single carriageway had been completed for the Kwabenya section of the project, with pedestrian facilities and retaining wall constructions being undertaken.
Rex Mainoo Yeboah, ISD
