Dansoman road project ready July

WORK on the reconstruction of the Dansoman main dual carriage road will be completed by July this year.
The Chief Executive Officer of PMC Construction Limited, Mr Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, told journalists in Accra yesterday that conveying construction materials from the Central Region and the Shai Hills to the main construction site at Dansoman had been the main challenge confronting the project.
He said about 90 per cent of the work had been completed and that the rest would be accomplished by July this year.
The Dansoman main road was initially a single carriage road which, according to the contractor and the Member of Parliament for the Ablekuma South, Mr Fritz Baffuor, was full of potholes.
The initial plan was to fill the potholes which posed a threat to both drivers and all those who used the road.
The project was later changed to the reconstruction of a dual carriage highway instead to ease traffic and alleviate the various road threats it posed to those who plied it.
The dual carriage highway reconstruction, which started more than two years ago and has run far beyond its completion date, led to business activities along the Dansoman Highway coming to a standstill due to the dust that entered the shops along the highway.
While inspecting the work done so far on the project, Mr Abdullah affirmed that 13 bus stops would be put up on the road.
He also indicated that street lights, speed humps and bus stops could not be put up before the completion of the project and called on the people who were suggesting that such facilities be provided before the completion of the work to put a stop to that suggestion.
Some residents who spoke to the Daily Graphic said there had been several tours of inspection of the road but its completion had become a problem.
They complained about the health hazard the project had posed since it was started.
The Daily Graphic also noted that part of the road had been tarred, while the untarred part was sprinkled with water to avoid dust.
But, according to the residents, the sprinkling was not done always but only when there was going to be an inspection of the road.
Mr Abdullah pointed out that water could not be poured on the road always because of the cost involved in purchasing a tanker of water to the construction site for sprinkling on the ground.
“The road cannot be built somewhere and brought here, so there will definitely be dust while the construction goes on and the sprinkling of water on the road to lessen the dust was not included in the contract,” he added.
According to him, a tanker of water cost GH¢300 and in a day about five trips would be needed, which would cost the government huge sums of money if included in the budget for the construction of the road.
 Mr Abdullah assured the government and the public of a 10-year warranty which would guarantee that the there would not be any potholes on the road after completion.
 Mr Baffuor noted that the construction of the  Dansoman main road was only one of the many projects he had embarked on and completed in the area and expressed optimism that he would win the Ablekuma South Constituency seat again.