{"id":382122,"date":"2017-12-11T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=382122"},"modified":"2017-12-11T17:01:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T17:01:09","slug":"trasacco-residents-offer-to-pay-for-direct-route-to-motorway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/trasacco-residents-offer-to-pay-for-direct-route-to-motorway\/","title":{"rendered":"Trasacco residents offer to pay for direct route to Motorway"},"content":{"rendered":"
Residents of Trasacco Valley in Accra have expressed frustration over their inability to easily access the Accra-Tema Motorway from their community.<\/p>\n
The residents have stated that they are ready to contribute towards the construction of an approved stretch from their areas to the Motorway.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”WZvI3EWZ7HTGdY7fILaH5HA1XA6NJscY”]They lament that the non-existence of an approved route from the area to the Motorway makes it extremely difficult to for them to commute from their homes to the Central Business District.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong>, the lead petitioner, Priscilla Ashiam\u00a0said they [Trasacco residents] are also ready to pay tolls once a route is constructed.<\/p>\n An unapproved stretch was created to enable the residents to link directly with the Motorway but that has been blocked,\u00a0with the Roads Ministry describing it as illegal.<\/p>\n Priscilla Ashiam said they\u00a0were told that the route was blocked because they were accessing the route without paying some monies to the state.<\/p>\n “When we heard the import of the issue, the matter was we were evading taxes and revenue. We are more than willing to pay and even pay a premium to get onto the Motorway,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n She lamented that she doesn\u2019t see the need for residents to waste productive time in traffic while there is an access route which is properly supervised.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Deputy Minister for Roads and Highways, Anthony Karbo has welcomed the initiative<\/strong><\/a><\/span> by the community to pay to have access to the motorway through the already existing route.<\/p>\n