road traffic in ghana

ROAD TRAFFIC A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR TO LOW PRODUCTIVITY IN GHANA

Though cities and traffic have developed hand-in-hand since the earliest human settlements, traffic in Accra is on the increase.

Quite recently the level of road traffics in Accra has been overwhelming. When we take a look on our roads today we find out that traffic begins to pile up as early as six in the morning. This ends somewhere ten o’clock and starts again at four in the evening and ends around thirty minutes to eight or even later than that.

All I ask my self is how can people who seek development commence work at ten in the morning and close at four in the evening so as to avoid getting home late or being caught up in traffic. This attitude is causing a great loss to the nation in respect to productivity. This is simply because Accra happens to be the nations industrial hob; by this I mean this is where most of the country’s businesses are located.

It is true that the productivity of many countries in the world is adversely affected due to traffic but taking a careful look at the direction our dear nation Ghana is heading I say if care is not taking or if this is not curtailed,the traffic in Accra would become worse than that of Sao Paulo and productivity will continue dwindling. With elections and Christmas in just about six months the traffic in Accra will get worse since there will be an influx of people from all over the world in the country to observe the elections.

We therefore need to make a collective effort in solving this problem.