Rawlings Park to be reconstructed

Plans are in the pipeline to reconstruct the Rawlings Park into a multi-storey car park this year. The park would have warehouses, stores, shops, offices and a tower tall enough to enable visitors to view a good part of the city.

Mr Solomon Ofei Darko, Metropolitan Chief Executive, who announced this at the first ordinary meeting of the fourth session of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) in Accra on Wednesday, said it was part of the measures to de-congest the city.

Mr Darko said with the present rapid growth and expansion of the city, with the bulk of residential communities that make enormous demands on terminals, the AMA was proposing the creation of four inter-urban terminals. These include a Northern Exit to be created at Achimota to serve all Northern bound inter-urban traffic such as Suhum, Nkawkaw, Tamale and Bolgatanga.

The Eastern exit would be located at a junction between Spintex Road and the Motorway Roundabout to serve all eastern bound inter-urban destinations such as Kpone, Prampram, Ada and Aflao. The North Eastern Exit to be located opposite Secaps Hotel would serve destination such as Aburi and Akropong.

The Western Exit Terminal would be located either within the existing Takoradi Terminal at Kaneshie or at a site to be identified along the Weija Road. It would serve destinations such as Cape Coast, Takoradi and Axim. The Tudu Lorry Station would be converted for the use of hawkers as part of measures to de-congest the city.

The GNA/Diamond House Lorry Station would be dislodged and converted into a garden or a canteen for civil servants, while the Neoplan Station would be dislodged to serve as an intra-urban terminal in place of the Circle Trotro Station. The Circle Station would be turned into a hawkers' mall.

The Agbogbloshie Lorry Station would also to be dislodged of its inter-urban functions and re-organised for intra-urban functions. Mr Ofei Darko said the CMB and Tema Lorry Stations would remain strictly as intra-urban terminals.