The Department of Urban Roads has pledged to ensure the efficient management and maintenance of the newly commissioned Flower Pot Interchange.
This assurance comes in the wake of public concerns about potential misuse and the preservation of the facility’s integrity.
Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show on Wednesday, November 20, James Amoo-Gottfried, Director of Urban Roads, echoed the sentiments of the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus Glover.
Amoo-Gottfried assured that strict measures would be implemented to prevent unauthorised structures, such as kiosks and makeshift stalls, from springing up around or beneath the interchange.
Constructed at a cost of GH¢677,839,999.5, the Flower Pot Interchange aims to reduce the persistent traffic congestion in the East Legon and Spintex Road enclaves.
Amoo-Gottfried expressed optimism that the interchange would greatly improve traffic flow and intimated that the maintenance strategy includes collaboration with local assemblies and private entities to ensure the facility remains in pristine condition.
“When it comes to the kiosks and other things, we are collaborating with the assemblies to make sure that within the right of way, we don’t have such facilities there. This facility is too good to have kiosks around and I think the Regional Minister was emphatic yesterday.
“One of the reasons for doing this project is to release the area of traffic congestion and once the bridge is 100 percent complete, we should allow people to use it and that is what we have done. There are other minor works that we are doing within the area and that is not close to the interchange, but it is complementary,” he said.
