Boom in road sector: 9 Highways, 7 bridges, 5 interchanges this year
The government will start work on nine new major road projects in parts of the country this year and complete many others that are at advanced stages of completion.
Documents secured from the Roads and Highways Ministry indicate the new road projects as the Accra-Kumasi dualisation (in sections), the Kumasi South and Western Bypass and the Kumasi Outer Ring Road.
The rest are the Mamfe-Koforidua road, the Oyibi-Dodowa-Somanya-Akuse Junction Road, the Accra Outer Ring Road, the Asutuare Junction-Volivo Bridge road, the Eastern Corridor Road (Gbintiri-Kulungugu) and the Sawla-Wa road.
Also to start in the year are seven bridges, three of them major projects, and five new interchanges, all within the Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area.
The bridges to be constructed this year in...