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Madina assembly adopts advanced strategy to solve jaywalking

The La Nkwantanang-Madina Assembly has adopted an advanced strategy to control and compel pedestrians to use the footbridges in order to allow free traffic flow in the area.

Date Created : 8/3/2021 12:00:00 AM : Story Author : Susana Danso/Ghanadistricts.com

Among the strategies the assembly has adopted include the positioning of police personnel and taskforce at vantage points to prevent people from adamantly crossing the road irrespective of the public sensitization and warning signs.

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) Mrs.

Jennifer Dede Adjabeng revealed that the assembly is yet to introduce the use of sawdust to protect the medium lanes of the highway to stop people from jaywalking.

She is optimistic that the sawdust approach would help in strengthening the Assembly’s measures to compel people to use the footbridges because it has been successfully practiced in Europe. “My research has proved that some countries in Europe have used the sawdust approached and it was successful so we are going to experiment same here and see how it will work in our case” She added.

Mrs. Dede Adjabeng therefore noted that the fencing and creation of lawns along the Adentan-Madina highway forms part of the ‘making Accra Work Again’ agenda initiated by the Greater Accra regional minister.