Heavy rains within the early hours of Tuesday morning have brought about repeated flooding and landslides alongside the Accra-Takoradi Expressway.
This was significantly evident between Weija SCC and Atala, inflicting extreme site visitors congestion and main inconvenience to commuters.
Floodwaters submerged components of the freeway and deposited a thick layer of mud throughout the highway, stranding a number of automobiles and decreasing site visitors.
Commuters who usually take about 5 minutes to cross this stretch had been compelled to endure a journey that would take greater than two hours.
The state of affairs turned much more important when each eastbound and Accra-bound lanes had been impassable. Motorists had been compelled to merge onto the westbound carriageway, leading to chaotic site visitors circumstances and bumper-to-bumper traces stretching greater than 5 kilometers.
pleasure information Reporter Maxwell Agbaba, who visited the scene, noticed a number of automobiles caught on the muddy highway as motorists struggled to navigate the flooded sections.
“One car has been caught within the mud on this highway for greater than an hour as efforts proceed to hunt help to maneuver it. The flooding has brought about large site visitors jams, with bumper-to-bumper queues stretching for greater than 5 kilometers. What would usually be a five-minute drive for commuters is now a journey that takes greater than two hours,” he reported.
He mentioned a couple of kilometer of the eastbound part of the freeway was submerged below water, making the highway nearly inaccessible as a result of flooding and particles circulate.
“The eastbound and Accra-bound lanes have been fully blocked, forcing automobiles to merge onto the westbound aspect. That is inflicting chaos alongside the highway,” he added.
Current flooding occasions have renewed considerations concerning the recurrent nature of flooding alongside the Weija Hall and the effectiveness of long-term drainage interventions within the space.
The motive force, recognized solely as Prince, appealed to the federal government to expedite approval of funds to finish the undertaking.
He defined that a part of the drainage undertaking has been accomplished round Balia, Atala and SCC areas, however necessary sections stay incomplete.
“Whereas the brand new drainage channels which have been accomplished are functioning, a lot of the undertaking is just not but completed. With many kilometers of building nonetheless remaining, injury has already been executed earlier than floodwaters attain the finished drainage channels,” he mentioned.
He known as on the general public to not blame contractors for the flooding, stressing that work was nonetheless ongoing.
In the meantime, many drivers caught in site visitors appeared more and more impatient, annoyed after being caught in site visitors for hours.
As of Tuesday morning, lengthy traces of automobiles stretched past sight at each ends of the affected part, underscoring the size of the disruption brought on by the flooding.
