OGR to take delivery of 10 more coaches

OGR Transport Services, luxury road-transport operators, is to take delivery of an additional 10 new coaches to meet its target of providing a new form of comfort to travellers.

Mrs Chris Botchwey, Executive Director of OGR Travel and Tours, operators of OGR Travels Services, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) Business Desk in Accra that the company intends to extend its services to all the major towns in the country.

She was commenting on the performance of the new coach service since it began operations last month. OGR currently operates a fleet of three coaches to Kumasi three times a day from Accra. The coach travels to Tamale once a week.

The coach is air-conditioned and fitted with a fridge, toilet facility, over-head reading lights, on-board movies, drinks, snacks and stewards. Mrs Botchwey said Kumasi was chosen as a strategic destination, "because it offers a unique opportunity to provide excellent services to numerous tourist and foreign-based Ghanaians that throng the Garden City."

She said the coach has two highly trained technicians on board at any given time to ensure that faults are quickly and readily corrected. "We also have a mechanism with the Ghana Police Service for maximum security."

Some travelers who spoke to the GNA welcomed the operations of the OGR saying, "It is long overdue. But we are happy that at long last there is a service that is clean, efficient and luxurious.