General News of Monday, 10 August 2015

Source: www.ghanaweb.com

Mahama opens two flyovers at Nkrumah Circle

President John Dramani Mahama President John Dramani Mahama

President John Dramani Mahama last weekend cut the tape to inaugurate two of the three flyovers at the ongoing Kwame Nkrumah Circle project.

The opening of the two flyovers was to ease traffic congestion and to allow for work to begin on other parts of the Nkrumah Interchange.

Addressing the event, President Mahama said the opening of the road will bring considerable relief to commuters on the Nsawam – Accra corridor.

To address the issue of congestion in other parts of the city, He said, the government was executing other road projects.

A third flyover under construction plus other works – a new statue of Ghana’s first President Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, a fountain and a police post, new lorry parks, among others, are expected to be completed and inaugurated before June 2016.