Measures To Reduce Traffic Congestion In Cape Coast - Chairman Dadson Hint

One of the popular Engineers who also doubles as a Politician, Mr Stephen Kweku Dadson, known by many as Chairman Dadson has expressed a great worry over the traffic situation in Cape Coast, the Central Regional capital.

According him, the major causes of traffic situation in Cape Coast  are: population, human activities and potholes. As a result of that, drivers plying through the area spend a lot of time on their way.

Stephen Kweku Dadson, Engineer/Politician

"Illegal parking, waiting, loading/unloading obstructs traffic flow, reduces capacity at junctions, holds up buses, and increases danger to those walking or cycling. Blocking junctions, which is illegal where there’s a yellow box, causes gridlock across a wide area of the road network."

"There is currently an acceptance that it’s acceptable for delivery vehicles to park up on the pavement outside a shop, even when there’s a safer alternative. The convenience of the delivery driver outweighs convenience and safety of pedestrians, wheelchair users and those with infant buggies".

Government and local authorities need to have consultations and negotiations with survivors and engineers enforcement as a positive effort to help responsible road users, and not as a ‘war on motorists’.

Chairman Dadson urged the authorities to enforce the road traffic laws for the avoidance of inconveniences as incidents and works on the strategic road network often cause large volumes of traffic to divert onto city and village roads, creating long delays for local traffic, including bus services. Highways authorities should make it a higher priority to make the strategic road network more resilient.

He also revealed his iniative for bringing the by'Super Gutter League' with massive education, in order to eradicate open defecation in certain areas. Chairman Dadson applauded and pleaded that, the good and law abiding citizens of Cape Coast Metropolis should support his initiatives to the progress of the area and Ghana at large.

Source: AfricaNewsArenaGh.com