Some motorists plying the Tema/Dawhenya road have appealed to the Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) to install traffic lights at the Tema Steel Works junction to control the heavy traffic at the spot. The junction is always congested especially on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays in the mornings and the evenings due to absence of traffic lights. Heavy industrial vehicles and fuel tankers ply the road due to industrial activities in the area. Some of the motorists told the GNA that there is always confusion at the junction when these industrial and other long vehicles join the main road at the junction from the Steel Works Road and the other junction opposite. Mr. George Mensah, a motorist, said due to the lack of traffic lights at the junction, drivers from Tema heading towards Dawhenya and those joining the road from the Steel Works Junction as well as those turning to the left at the junction all feel they have the right of way. Mr. Mensah said this normally leads to the creation of more than four lanes for a two-lane road as both drivers of private and commercial vehicles resort to driving on the shoulders of the road. “The situation sometimes becomes very serious as almost all the vehicles in the heavy traffic toot their horns in confusion”, he said. Motorists said if the Authority was unable to provide the traffic lights, then the Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) of the Ghana Police Service must always ensure that its personnel were at the junction to control traffic. Some of the drivers also appealed to the Authority to ensure that all traffic lights in the Tema Metropolis functioned properly. They said some traffic lights installed at a junction about 400 metres from the Tema Steel Works junction had never functioned since their installation. Source: GNA