Bunsu youth threaten to block Accra-Kumasi highway

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• Ck 8 years ago

  Sad to loose a life. But the road primarily is for the motor vehicle. Pedestrians must therefore adapt and not the other way around. To cross a street, one must be careful and know the rules involved. Look right and left, etc ...
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  Sad to loose a life. But the road primarily is for the motor vehicle. Pedestrians must therefore adapt and not the other way around. To cross a street, one must be careful and know the rules involved. Look right and left, etc, as they cross.
  The road is not a bedroom. Why do we blame the motorist all the time and not the pedestrian?

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• DON'T CARE 8 years ago

  THE PRIMITIVE PEOPLE HERE DON'T KNOW HOW TO CROSS A BUSY READ. THE MTTD COULD EDUCATE THSE STONE-AGE PEOPLE ABOUT 'THE SCIENCE OF ROAD CROSSING SO THAT THE DON'T WASTE OUR TIME. THE PEOPLE MAY RE-LOCATE DEEP INTO THE BUSH IF ...
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  THE PRIMITIVE PEOPLE HERE DON'T KNOW HOW TO CROSS A BUSY READ. THE MTTD COULD EDUCATE THSE STONE-AGE PEOPLE ABOUT 'THE SCIENCE OF ROAD CROSSING SO THAT THE DON'T WASTE OUR TIME. THE PEOPLE MAY RE-LOCATE DEEP INTO THE BUSH IF THEY BEHAVE LIKE SHEEP WHEN CROSSING ROADS!!!!!!!

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• Yaa Nkosuo 8 years ago

  The Highway Authority, if we have one !! have a duty of care to protect the people in that area.
  
  We do not have laws that work so no-one knows whose duty/responsibility it is to protect life that is why you write like tha ...
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  The Highway Authority, if we have one !! have a duty of care to protect the people in that area.
  
  We do not have laws that work so no-one knows whose duty/responsibility it is to protect life that is why you write like that.

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• AMUZU 8 years ago

  We can change Gov't at will but we need to change our lives to stay safe,have a look at G.W.Bush highway Accra and see how people have taken down nets,that will protect them from being kill by cars.

  We can change Gov't at will but we need to change our lives to stay safe,have a look at G.W.Bush highway Accra and see how people have taken down nets,that will protect them from being kill by cars.

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• Krakadii 8 years ago

  Hahaha ,Luck of knowledge my peoples perish .
  That is a major road and is for motorist not for pedestrian

  Hahaha ,Luck of knowledge my peoples perish .
  That is a major road and is for motorist not for pedestrian

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• Nicholas Kyeretwie 8 years ago

  It is only in Ghana that bumps or whatever are constructed on major international roads.If people are knocked down by vehicles,it is because they are careless and do not care about their own lives. You need to educate your pe ...
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  It is only in Ghana that bumps or whatever are constructed on major international roads.If people are knocked down by vehicles,it is because they are careless and do not care about their own lives. You need to educate your people about road safety and how not to cross major highways.Everywhere in the world,once a vehicle is involved in an accident,the first accusation is the driver was speeding no-matter If he was doing/20mph.We all need to know and understand that roads and highways are there for vehicles to take people to and fro for the country to develop. It's time we stop this nonsense of people taking the law into their own hands and leave roads and highways to serve the purpose for which they are constructed.How can government be accused of not doing the roads,only for the same people to turn around to destroy the roads.

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• ASEM 8 years ago

  IN GERMANY, THEY DON'T CONSTRUCT HIGHWAYS THROUGH THE CITY CENTERS. THEY SHOULD BE CONSTRUCTED OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS SO PEOPLE SHOULD TRAVEL FROM THE CITY TO JOIN THE HIGHWAYS.

  IN GERMANY, THEY DON'T CONSTRUCT HIGHWAYS THROUGH THE CITY CENTERS. THEY SHOULD BE CONSTRUCTED OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS SO PEOPLE SHOULD TRAVEL FROM THE CITY TO JOIN THE HIGHWAYS.

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• Yaa Nkosuo 8 years ago

  Unfortunately the City planners have ignored all that. WE didn't make allowance for expansion, influx of cars and even the population; and land earmarked for all of that has been sold to private individuals that is why we c ...
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  Unfortunately the City planners have ignored all that. WE didn't make allowance for expansion, influx of cars and even the population; and land earmarked for all of that has been sold to private individuals that is why we cannot compare our planning to that in the West. Once they earmark land for particular development, it stays forever and any changes are put out in the public domain for the public to debate the issue.
  
  Can you imagine that being introduced in the Third World where everybody is "Oga boss"?

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• Salifu 8 years ago

  The road in question was constructed before the people started building houses .The Ghana situation can not be compared to Germany.In Germany people would not have been allowed to build close to the roads.Building Bumpers on ...
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  The road in question was constructed before the people started building houses .The Ghana situation can not be compared to Germany.In Germany people would not have been allowed to build close to the roads.Building Bumpers on a high Way will also cause accidents which you don't want to happen.Traffic lights too are expensive maybe a Flyover bridge but will your people use it?

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• GHANAMAN THE REAL 8 years ago

  Until the last 10-15 years, there was only a hamlet or little cottage at the K'dua side of the junction but once the road was modernised and re-directed from the Kibi side, then all these people migrated to the current juncti ...
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  Until the last 10-15 years, there was only a hamlet or little cottage at the K'dua side of the junction but once the road was modernised and re-directed from the Kibi side, then all these people migrated to the current junction and gradually turned it into this township of hawkers who have this nasty habit of chasing vehicles and carelessly criss-crossing the highway just to make a sale! The Highway Authorities should therefore ignore this ignorant bunch of so called youth and fence off the roads with, at best, subways or bridges for crossing if they can find the funds!

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• Yaa Nkosuo 8 years ago

  You've made a sensible suggestion in the latter part of your comment but I don't understand you in the inital part of your comment.
  Is it an offence to identify a niche in the construction of the road by selling their wares ...
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  You've made a sensible suggestion in the latter part of your comment but I don't understand you in the inital part of your comment.
  Is it an offence to identify a niche in the construction of the road by selling their wares.
  
  Unfortunately people have to make a living under very harsh and dangerous conditions like that one.
  That unfortunate situation can be rectified by creating laybys on sections of the road where motorists can park and passengers buy their needs.
  Ghana Highways have a duty to create a safe environment if the people have an advocate to insist on it. They CANNOT IGNORE THEM as you suggest

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• Yaa Nkosuo 8 years ago

  Not "contruction"
  but the "strategic siting" for commercial purposes of the road

  Not "contruction"
  but the "strategic siting" for commercial purposes of the road

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• Max 8 years ago

  That so called hamlet or cottage u are refering to, is NEW NSUTAM. This settlements has been there since 1969 when Busia,s government decided to relocate the ppl of NSUTAM to that place due to the flood of the previous yr. T ...
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  That so called hamlet or cottage u are refering to, is NEW NSUTAM. This settlements has been there since 1969 when Busia,s government decided to relocate the ppl of NSUTAM to that place due to the flood of the previous yr. There was and is still a School , Snr High School, a Post Office, etc. There has never been a hamlet there.

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• Yaa Nkosuo 8 years ago

  There was a Police barrier on the other side of the road (towards Nkawkaw/Kumasi side) I don't know if it is still there

  There was a Police barrier on the other side of the road (towards Nkawkaw/Kumasi side) I don't know if it is still there

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• Kwabena 8 years ago

  The police service and Ministry of Road and Highways must must address this issue immediately.

  The police service and Ministry of Road and Highways must must address this issue immediately.

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• K. Anim 8 years ago

  All lives are precious and all lives
  deserve to be protected and saved from needless road accidents.
  The Roads and Highways authorities must quickly find a feasible solution of either constructing a pedestrian tunnel or p ...
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  All lives are precious and all lives
  deserve to be protected and saved from needless road accidents.
  The Roads and Highways authorities must quickly find a feasible solution of either constructing a pedestrian tunnel or pedestrian fly over walk way, to save lives as well as to facilitate uninhibited vehicular movement on that dangerous stretch of road.

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