Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange opens today.

Two of the three interchanges of the Kwame Nkrumah Circle Interchange project will be open to traffic on Friday August 7, 2015.

Work on the interchange that links Akasanoma Road to the Nsawam Road, around the Vodafone building, and the other one which links the Nsawam Road to the Nkrumah Avenue, around the Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) building, are complete.

President John Dramani Mahama is scheduled to inaugurate the two interchanges on Friday, according to the engineers on the project.

When the Daily Graphic visited the site yesterday, workers of Queiroz Galvao Construction, the company working on the project, were seen washing the asphaltic concrete surface of the interchanges.

The foreman of the project, Mr James Gatsiko, said work on the two interchanges were complete and that the washing was to remove the dust that had collected on them.

He corroborated that after the inauguration by the President on Friday, the interchanges would be opened to motorists.

Outstanding work

Mr Gatsiko said work on the third interchange, which will link Ring Road Central to Ring Road West, was far advanced.

Work on the loop, which would connect to the interchanges, was also near completion, he said.

He said the outstanding major work was the improvement of the other roads around the Kwame Nkrumah Circle.

Generally, Mr Gatsiko said, the whole project was about 75 per cent complete, and indicated that work would be completed by the end of December, 2015, or the end of January, 2016.

Workers were seen working on the other components of the project, which included the third interchange and culverts.

Circle interchange

President Mahama cut the sod for the construction of the three-tier interchange at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra in October, 2013.

The 74.88 million euro project is being jointly financed with credit from the Brazilian Government and the Ghana Government.

Aside from the three-tier interchange, other roads around the Kwame Nkrumah Circle will be improved. These include rehabilitation of the Ring Road East to the Feo Oyo Intersection on the Ring Road West.

The roads will be asphaltic concrete surfaced, with pedestrian walkways and bicycle paths.

Source-graphic.com.gh.