STREET LIGHTING PROJECT BEGINS IN SEKONDI/TAKORADI (PAGE 29)

The Sekondi/Takoradi streetlight project has begun with 12.94 kilometres of roads lighted.
The lighted roads are the 2.97 kilometre Sekondi-Takoradi road, the 1.05 kilometre Independence Road, the 3.33 kilometre J.B. Danquah Road, the 0.63 kilometre Paa Grant Road, the 0.57 kilometre Lagos Town Road, the 3.45 kilometre Sekondi-Takoradi road and the 0.96 kilometre Lagoon Road.
The lighting project will cover a total of 33.63 kilometres of streets in Sekondi-Takoradi and the erection of 1,121 electric poles.
Other streets/roads to be covered under the project are the 0.57 kilometre Master Kudjoe Road, the 0.96 kilometre Air Force Service Road, the 0.93 kilometre Kofi Annan Road, the 0.66 kilometre Beach Road, the 0.90 kilometre Paa Grant Road (phase two), the 1.11 kilometre Lagos Town Road (phase two), the 1.17 kilometre Number Nine Road, the 1.44 kilometre Takoradi Polytechnic Road, the 1.68 kilometre E.C.G. Road and the 0.72 kilometre Kwamina Anaifi Road.
The rest are the 3.00 kilometre Nana Kosena Angn Road, the 0.51 kilometre Poase Road, the 0.30 kilometre Well Road, the 3.21 kilometre Ketan Road, the 2.94 kilometre J.B. Danquah Road and the 0.57 kilometre I.K. Kumah Avenue Road.
The Public Relations Officer of the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA), Mr John Laste, told the Daily Graphic that the project was being executed by Elsewedy Electric Ghana Limited and that it was to be completed by October, this year.
He said almost all the major roads had been completed.
Touching on the construction of storm drains in the twin-city, Mr Laste said this had started at the Effia-Number Nine and the West Tanokrom drains.
From there, he said, the contractors would move to the Kokompe-Adakope drain, adding that the contractors were working according to their working plan.
Concerning parking lots for articulated trucks in the metropolis, Mr Laste explained that the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly did not have a problem with cocoa trucks, since they had a parking lot at Apowa, near Takoradi.
He said the assembly had secured land at Mpintsin near Kojokrom for fuel tankers and other articulated trucks carrying bulk commodities.
He, therefore, urged the articulated truck and fuel tanker drivers to disabuse their minds that the land meant for the lorry park had been sold out, adding that the assembly was looking for a private investor to develop the land.