Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong>, Mr.\u00a0Gidisu noted that automation of toll booths would help reduce the road arrears accrued by the state.<\/p>\n[contextly_sidebar id=”xJKAyQuBNQzEpKSaUCtBbk4qYs9PHgJI”]Only four of the 31 tolling points in Ghana are automated at present.<\/p>\n
Mr.\u00a0Amoako-Attah, during his vetting\u00a0on Wednesday, revealed that road arrears for the Ghana Highways Authority, Feeder Roads and Urban Roads as of December 31, 2016, stood at GH\u00a217 billion, adding that the Road Fund generated only GHc1.2 billion yearly, thus establishing a funding gap.<\/p>\n
Speaking on why more toll booths had not been automated, Mr. Gidisu said, there are some of the roads which qualify but are yet to be automated like ones on the Kumasi and Sunyani roads.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the situation is that there is the need for some diligence and consistency in carrying that situation [the automation] around. Since I left that ministry, no other road toll booth has been automated. the four points were points that we automated at that\u00a0time and returns have been quite encouraging.\u201d<\/p>\n
Innovation will overcome\u00a0problem of congestion<\/strong><\/p>\nThere have been concerns that more automated toll booths would lead to more vehicular congestion, but Mr. Gidisu noted some innovations that could bypass this problem.<\/p>\n
He recounted that at the Tema Motorway, traffic used to build up till the introduced the e-switch; where regular road users could prepay for tickets and use dedicated\u00a0lanes. “We had a\u00a0particular\u00a0lane dedicated to the e-switch for regular users of the motorway so they do not have to wait at the toll booth to pay.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are some of the innovations that we reduced the frustration of congestion that you are talking about\u2026 As noted by other speakers, it is one of the very effective ways we can mobilise funds for the road sector and the returns will be far greater in helping to reduce the tension on the road budget,\u201d the former\u00a0Roads and Highways minister said.<\/p>\n
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By:\u00a0Delali\u00a0Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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