The Minister of Roads and Highways, Governs Kwame Agbodza, has urged the contractor working on the Accra-Tema Motorway reconstruction and extension project to increase activity and take advantage of the government’s 24-hour policy to ensure timely completion.

Mr Agbodza said the motoring public could not continue to endure the disruption caused by the construction if the project was delayed.

“I want to encourage you to even increase that further because a project like this elsewhere will be done 24/7, and there is no reason why you cannot work even more in the night than the day,” he said.

The Minister made the remarks during an inspection of the project last Wednesday.

The consultant, Chief Executive Officer of Associated Consultant Ltd, Kwabena Bempong, said the project was 50 per cent complete.

He said the contractor had completed about 10 per cent additional work since the Minister’s previous inspection.

The completed project is expected to become a 10-lane dual carriageway, with three-lane urban highways on either side of the existing motorway.

The project covers a 19.5-kilometre stretch from Tema to Tetteh Quarshie, a 5.7-kilometre stretch from the Tetteh Quarshie Interchange to the Apenkwa Interchange, and a 2.5-kilometre section from Tesano to the Neoplan Station at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange.

Mr Agbodza also inspected other road projects in the Greater Accra Region, including the reconstruction of the Dodowa-Afienya-Dawhenya road and the dualisation of the 22-kilometre Adentan-Dodowa road.