Drivers and passengers who ply the Somanya Agormanya stretch through to Akosombo both in the Yilo krobo, Lower Manya and Asuoggyaman Districts of the Eastern Region, have bemoaned the stressful situation caused by heavy vehicular traffic on market days.
According to them they need a new lorry station to accommodate them which will prevent drivers from picking up passengers and parking on the roadside especially on market days – Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Drivers and passengers were dissappointed in leadership of the Assembly for their failure in ensuring sanity and flow of traffic at the market by allocating a permanent station for drivers.
In an interaction with Angel News Jaman Dehyee Opambour, drivers noted that though efforts have been made by the Municipal Assembly and the Odomase Police Command to get them a station but it yielded no fruits.
“We used to load inside the market but now we load on the roadside and that creates a blockage thus worsening the traffic. We need a new station to work in”, said a driver.
Another added that “there is no station for trotro heading to Akosombo, Atimpoku, Juapong and the rest so on market days, the trotro and taxi drivers occupy the road and restrict movement on the road”
Due to the situation at the market, drivers and passengers are forced to load and offload their goods on the streets of Agormanya which connects major towns and communities in the municipality thus resulting in a traffic jam at the market center.
According to them, several hours are spent between a distance of about one(1) kilometer starting from Firestone to Agormano, a suburb of Agormanya in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality.
Meanwhile several attempts by Angel News to reach the Municipal Chief Executive of the area, Mr. Simon Kweku Tetteh, to comment on the situation and measures taken by the assembly to curb the traffic have proved futile.
Drivers are therefore appealing to the Municipal Assembly to get them a lorry station and also make sure the road is expanded to ease congestion and traffic on the road during market days.
