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The Kumasi metropolitan security council led by, Hon. Sam Pyne has met the various Transport Unions executives within the metropolis to discuss issues pertaining to their operations and jointly plan how they can find solutions to their challenges as well as how they can see to it that decisions they jointly take would be adhered to.
Issues discussed included On-street activities, Illegal loading points, Congestion situations in the CBD, Multiple stations at terminals and Weak Enforcement Activities.
On On-street activities, Mr Sam pyne said the KMA has implemented some policies to ease the congestion in the central business district which was supposed to be a stop gab approach which was nicely done at the initial stage until later the Trotro and taxi operators abused the system.
He said the end result of the abused system was the chaos that we were witnessing in town recently.
With reference to illegal loading points, Sam Pyne noted that there were some routes that were not assigned to the transport operators but those were the ones that they had added to their operations. He added that other On-street stations also allowed other people to come in and set up stations at places that they know were not supposed to be there.He mentioned places like Pampaso, Komfo Anokye Round about and others which were steadily turning into stations, noting that they were all illegal long distance routes.
On his part, Mr Randy Willson, head of transport at Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly said, the Multiple Stations at the terminals is the major problem facing the City.
He said the effect of transport operators setting up multiple stations was that passengers rather preferred to stand by the roadside and take the ‘waawaa’ vehicles than to rather go to a station.
Mr Willson entreated the transport operators to come onboard and deal with all these issues to have a smooth sail in transport activities in the Kumasi Metropolis.
Regional Road Safety Director Madam Simbiat Wiredu in a sideline interview the media accused the drivers over the recent road accident. She then urge the drivers to stop using mobile phone while driving and also rest when they are tird and avoid excessive intake of alcohol and over speeding.
