{"id":168041,"date":"2015-11-19T14:26:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T14:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=168041"},"modified":"2015-11-19T14:30:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T14:30:31","slug":"close-osu-oxford-street-to-vehicles-transport-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/11\/close-osu-oxford-street-to-vehicles-transport-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Close Osu Oxford Street to vehicles \u2013 Transport Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"
A professional planner with expertise in transportation, engineering and operations, Dr. Camynta Baezie, has suggested to managers of the national capital, to close the popular Osu Oxford Street to traffic, as a means of dealing with vehicular congestion in Accra.<\/p>\n
Oxford Street is one of the busiest streets in the capital, hosting many businesses.<\/p>\n
Dr. Camynta Baezie, who was speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong> about Accra\u2019s worsening congestion due to a fast rise in its population, commercial and residential structures, said the Oxford street should be used strictly by pedestrians as part of Accra\u2019s redesigning.<\/p>\n \u201cOsu for me from a professional point of view; Oxford Street, should be typically a pedestrian street with no cars. And when I talk about the transit oriented development, this is where we have to make that road for example \u2018pedestrianized\u2019 with probably a bus going up and down that road with a place where the bus stops and car parks nearby; so you can park your car, jump on a bus to go along; and then come back and use your car and go away. So there are all sorts of things that we can look at in our development efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr. Camynta Baezie lamented the situation where new residential and commercial facilities are fast springing up in the capital with no corresponding changes to the road infrastructure to make movement of people and vehicles easier.<\/p>\n