Accra-Tema Motorway gets new streetlights

The government has begun fixing and replacing non-functional streetlights on the Accra-Tema Motorway.

The exercise which started from the Tetteh Quarshie Interchange is currently at Sidalco

This has brought relief to pedestrians who usually stand on the roadsides to pick vehicles home at night after work.

The 19-kilometres Motorway, which was built during the era of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in 1965to link Tema and Accra, has been without streetlights for ages.

In June 2002, there was a report by the Ghana News Agency that the government was to spend GHC 1.95 million to light the motorway.

The project was to commemorate the country's Golden Jubilee birthday in 2007.

However, the project had some challenges that delayed its completion.

When he assumed office, the government of the late President Atta Mills commenced the motorway streetlights project, but it could not be completed.

Criminals along the motorway stole most of the electrical cables, while irresponsible and reckless drivers knocked down most of the poles.

The efforts by the present government to illuminate the motorway, a few commuters told Accra file, should not be a nine-day wonder.