We Need Rail Transport, But Not Relocation Of Toll Booth - Engineer

A road and building engineer has suggested building of the railway sector to ease both the human and vehicular congestion in the cities instead of relocation of various toll booths in the country. Mr. Debrah said expansions of the various roads to the main cities could also be an option to to ease the vehicular congestion on the roads.

The Minister of Roads, Amoako Atta was also reported to have said that feasibility studies are underway on the possibility of relocating the Kasoa toll booth as part of measures to also help eliminate the vehicular traffic bottleneck on that section of Accra-Winneba highway. The Minister also said the ministry has realized that it is

impossible to expand the gates at the booth because of a valley in that area. Consequently, considerations are underway on whether it should be relocated from that spot. Mr Amoako Atta said the feasibility studies were not limited to the Kasoa one alone but but all such toll booths across the country where such similar vehicular

traffic bottlenecks occur at peak periods. The Engineer said if the Kasoa toll booth is relocated beyond Kasoa, apart from the lost in revenue, it will also increase the population at the new place but there should be road expansions rather than relocations. We need to solve that challenge once and for all as a nation instead of

relocating the toll booths. Charles Debrah said “we have indiscipline in the system. We can also do four 4 lanes but the driver-pedestrians’ behaviour will never make it work because we are undisciplined on the roads. He explained that we board cars anywhere on the road. The problem is indiscipline because even if we move it to a virgin land and the people are not disciplined, it will not

work. He suggested that the rail system will help us for now so that people will drive to some destinations, park their cars and then join the rail to the towns and that is faster and that will help in reducing the traffic system in the cities. He explained that Kasoa toll booth, if we take it out, still there would be traffic at the Mallam Junction. Mallam traffic is more dangerous than the Kasoa itself.