Danger looms on La T-junction, Traffic Lights on busy intersection off for months

Motorsits jostle one another at the intersection.
Danger is looming on the La T-Junction section of the La-Teshie-Nungua Beach Road as all the traffic lights on the busy intersection has not been functioning for more than two months.
According to some motorists who ply the road daily, the traffic lights on the three-way intersection, which connects motorists from Burma Camp, 37 and other areas onto the Beach Road, ceased to function close to three months ago.
Consequently, motorists are compelled to jostle one another to navigate their way through the intersection, a situation that can result in fatal crashes regarding the thousands of motorists that ply the route.
Pedestrians who, hitherto, relied on the traffic lights to safely cross to all sides of the intersection are also vulnerable to knockdowns in the absence of traffic lights to regulate speeding vehicles.
Dangerous situation
When the Eddie's Dailies visited the intersection yesterday (Monday July 15), it found that all the eight separate traffic lights positioned to control traffic from all sides of the intersection were totally off, leaving motorists to their fate.
Motorists who joined the Beach Road from the Giffard Road, leading to Burma Camp and 37 were required to exercise utmost caution to successfully join the main road as motorists plying either side of the dual carriage (heading towards either Accra or Nungua) were reluctant to make way for them.
Some of the drivers, who appeared impatient at the hot spot, forcefully paved their way through, attracting insults and curses from other motorists who risked running into them.
Concerns
In an interaction with some motorists, they expressed concern over the situation, stating that they had escaped fatal clashes on the spot, owing to the growing impatience of some motorists.
“The situation is more dangerous in the nights because you cannot determine the rate at which an oncoming vehicle is speeding,” Mr Lord Kumah, a courier service operator stated.
A commercial bus driver, who identified himself only as Olele said “sometimes some police men come to assist with traffic control but that is not enough because this is the busiest intersection on the entire Beach Road,”
“The lights have been off for about three months now and within that period, I have witnessed not less than five minor crashes. Ishmael Asare, a mobile money vendor in the area stated.
They appealed to officials to, as a matter of urgency, fix the traffic light to enhance traffic flow and forestall potential fatal crashes.
MTTD reacts
When contacted, the Unit Commander of the La Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service, Assistant Superintendent of Police Nii Otoo Quaye expressed worry over the situation, stating that the traffic light had broken down intermittently for the past one year.
To mitigate the challenges, he said he deployed his men to control traffic at the intersection during the early morning and evening rush hours.
“Anytime it goes off, we engage the Department of Urban Roads to repair it. Sometimes it goes off again the next day after repair. Aside the danger it poses, it also puts a lot of stress on the MTTD,” he stated.
A source at the Department of Urban Roads (DUR), who pleaded anonymity, revealed that one Dakal Construction Works Limited had already been contracted by the DUR to fix the problem.

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