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Bridge closure takes toll on
transport operators
Ho, July 16, Ghanadot/GNA - The daily temporary closures of
the Adomi Bridge at Atimpoku for emergency repair works are
said to be taking a heavy toll on commercial road transport
operators plying between the Volta and the Greater Accra
regions and parts of the Eastern Region.
Mr Rexford Addo, Officer in-charge of Metro Mass Transport
(MT) Service
in the Volta Region told the Ghana News Agency in an
interview that, prior to the closure of the bridge, four of
their buses were plying the Ho-Accra route everyday.
He said they (MT) were now using two buses because of the
low passenger turn-out which was seriously affecting its
revenue situation.
Mr. Addo said long queues of vehicles were now formed at
both ends of the bridge because only two cars were allowed
to cross the bridge from one end when it was opened.
Mr. Samuel Iddrisu, a driver who plies the Ho-Accra route
said the congestion at the bridge was making travelling
tiresome for both drivers and passengers.
He said the number of passengers that travel from Ho to
Accra daily have decreased considerably thereby affecting
the income of both drivers and transport owners.
Mr. Iddrisu said some of them tried using the Ho-Sogakope-Accra
road but it was uneconomical.
He suggested that a road by-pass through Juapong to Akuse
that avoided the Adomi bridge should be opened temporary for
vehicles from the Volta Region going through to Accra and
other parts of the Eastern Region.
Madam Ayeshetu Mohammed, a trader said she has to cut down
on the goods she normally bought in Accra because the
vehicles she travels on from Accra were being weighed which
situation was affecting her business adversely.
The Adomi Bridge, which links the Volta Region at Atimpoku
in the Eastern region to the rest of the country would be
closed to traffic daily between 0800 and 1200 hours daily
for three weeks for emergency repair works.
GNA
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