{"id":149893,"date":"2015-09-08T13:59:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T13:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=149893"},"modified":"2015-09-08T14:26:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T14:26:26","slug":"bad-eastern-corridor-roads-swallowing-up-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=149893","title":{"rendered":"Bad Eastern Corridor roads swallowing up trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vehicles and heavy duty trucks plying the Bimbila- Damanko section of the Eastern Corridor Road have been stuck in the muddy stretch for close to 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The road became virtually unmotorable after\u00a0a heavy downpour in the area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/roads1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-149927\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/roads1.jpg\" alt=\"roads\" width=\"356\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/roads1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/roads1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/roads1-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Eastern Corridor road\u00a0is made up of a complex mix of roads traversing the Greater Accra, Volta, Northern and Upper East regions and is expected to ease access to markets and also enable farmers to increase the value of agriculture produce and ultimately their incomes.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, a distressed passenger\u00a0said:&#8221;I have been travelling from Accra to Bimbilla and the roads are completely bad&#8230; the roads that are being constructed have been abandoned&#8230; The water that is supposed to run through the roads is also stagnant&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/roads.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-149896\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/roads.jpg\" alt=\"roads\" width=\"400\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/roads.jpg 400w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/roads-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An abandoned bridge on the road near Afija is also said to be worsening the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the distressed drivers have resorted to using an alternative route which is taking them some four\u00a0additional hours to complete the journey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vehicles and heavy duty trucks plying the Bimbila- Damanko section of the Eastern Corridor Road have been stuck in the muddy stretch for close to 24 hours. The road became virtually unmotorable after\u00a0a heavy downpour in the area. The Eastern Corridor road\u00a0is made up of a complex mix of roads traversing the Greater Accra, Volta, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":149895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-149893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/149895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}