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President Akufo-Addo is expected to commission the newly built Flower Pot Interchange on November 19, 2024.
This was revealed by the Communications Director at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin.
The Flyover over the Motorway Interchange Project was designed to complement the newly completed underpass and to serve as an alternative for North-South movement.
The project has been amended several times and now consists of an 800m span flyover that starts at the Palace Mall off the Spintex Road and ends on Boundary Road in East Legon.
Additional features include ramps onto the motorway and improvements at the Flowerpot roundabout approaches at Spintex, as well as access through the old tunnel to East Legon.
Objectives
The objectives of the project include the following:
- To improve the lives of people and commuters traveling from the North to the South sections of the Accra-Tema Motorway.
- To reduce congestion at the Flowerpot Intersection along Spintex Road.
- To provide a direct route between Accra East (Burma Camp and its environs) and East Legon, and vice versa.
- To significantly reduce traffic around the other functioning access points across the motorway.
- To create a reliable access route with unhindered movement from Burma Camp and its environs to the motorway.
Scope of Works
- 802m of dual carriageway for the viaduct with asphaltic concrete surfacing.
- 140m of ramp constructed from Shiashie onto the viaduct towards Airport Hills.
- 80m of ramp constructed from the viaduct onto the motorway towards Tema.
- A new road through the old tunnel at East Legon.
- An additional 200m of road constructed to connect to Cantonments from the Giffard Road Interchange.
- Redesign of the Flowerpot roundabout and approaches.
- Pedestrian walkways on each side of the flyover.
- Road furniture including streetlights, road markings, and traffic signals.
Contract Data
- Contractor: China Railway No. 5 Engineering Gh. Ltd
- Consultant: Deoke Consult Ltd
- Contract Duration: 93 months
- Funding Source: Afrexim Bank/GoG
- Commencement: 7th March 2017
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