The commencement of the countrywide dualisation of trunk roads is good tidings beyond compare.
The project is the most effective intervention for the fatal accidents that have bedeviled this country in the past years. The trend and the attendant needless fatalities have gained a worrying exponential rise.
We have stated it time without number that some major roads in the country should not be left in their current state of single lanes.
When the Roads Minister Kwasi Amoako Attah dropped the hint about the nationwide project already ongoing on the critical ones like the Accra to Kumasi one among others those who have followed the accidents on our highways could not suppress heaving a sigh of relief.
With most of the fatal accidents occasioned by head-on collisions especially at night, the dualisation project deserves commendation because it eliminates head-on collisions.
We are also elated that the Minister has charged the contractors engaged for the projects to double up. The project unlike others is about preventing road fatalities. Â We cannot afford wearing the unenviable tag of one of the most accident-prone countries in Africa.
As the minister rightly stated, in some jurisdictions critical road projects such as awarded the contractors, work is done day and night.
Working at night is a novelty in our part of the world which would go a long way in getting us to our desired goal of complete dualisation of the country’s trunk roads early.
The minister should frequent the workplaces as a means of pushing the contractors to complete the projects on schedule.
The dualisation has been long in coming. That so many years after independence and the country’s most important highway, Accra to Kumasi continues to be a single lane road is unjustifiable.
Serving as a major international route linking Ghana with her landlocked neighbours like Burkina Faso, it is one project     which deserves unwavering attention.
Other roads also in a similar international category, the Accra to Aflao road linking Ghana with her Togolese, Beninoise and Nigerian counterparts is also being dualised, so is the Cape Coast through Takoradi to Elubo highway linking Accra and Abidjan
When the President designated 2021 as a Year of Roads he meant business.
Those traveling along the roads which are receiving dualisation conversion as we compose this commentary can verify the assertion.
Unfortunately those relishing political mischief and would deliberately turn their attention away from the projects being executed even as they drive through such places hardly mentioning the feats being chalked.
We wish to give a thumbs-up to the minister for being abreast with the state of traffic congestion from the Pokuase Interchange stretch.
It is our hope that he would act fast on the measures he has identified to make us enjoy the advantages of the project.
The Year of Roads is really here but we want the contractors to expedite action on the projects and for government to speed up the required payments to them so they won’t have any excuse to drag their feet.