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Akufo-Addo opens Accra traffic mgt centre

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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Friday, 2 August 2019, opened the Accra Traffic Management Centre, located at the Department of Urban Roads, Accra.

The Centre, the first of its kind in the country and in West Africa, will co-ordinate effectively Accra’s traffic light system, so as to guarantee efficient communications within the traffic light system, thereby, ensuring a much smarter way of dealing with congestion on the roads.


Speaking at the ceremony in Accra, Nana Akufo-Addo said “We find ourselves in a situation where the upsurge of vehicular traffic coupled with increasing urban population is putting a lot of pressure on facilities in our cities especially on our road infrastructure and also sapping productivity, that is why the Accra Traffic Management Center is such a welcome initiative.”

Explaining how the center works, Nana Akufo-Addo said: “In all, a total of 41 traffic lights have been upgraded between the new assembly plant at Achimota and the central business district of Accra. The upgrade includes the changing of traffic controllers – isolated intersection controllers which could not communicate with each other to interconnected adaptive controllers. This allows the controllers to communicate with each other along the corridor. With the use of detectors buried in the road, information is carried in real time to the traffic management center and this allows engineers to observe directly the traffic flow pattern along the corridor and address any incident on the road that will impede the flow of traffic”.

Source: Ghana/ClassFMonline.com

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