Pokuase Interchange to be ready by June ending - Urban Roads
Director of the Department of Urban Roads said the contractor had given the assurance that barring any unforeseen development, the interchange would be completed at the said time
Jonas Danquah 
The four-tier Awoshie-Pokuase Interchange and Local Roads Project located in the Ga North Municipality of the Greater Accra Region is scheduled for full completion by June this year, Director of the Department of Urban Roads (DUR),Mr Abass Awolu has said.
The $70 million project, began on July 3,2018,after the sod had been cut by the then Senior Minister,Mr Yaw Osafo Maafo,on behalf of the President,Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
,Mr Abass Awolu in an interview with Graphic said the contractor, Zhogmei Engineering Group Ltd of China,had given the assurance that barring any unforeseen development, the project would be completed by the end of June.
“Works will be completed by the close of the second quarter of this year and handed over to the government,” he said as quoted by Graphiconline.
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Aside from the main interchange,there are also a number of access roads that have been incorporated into the project to provide links to adjoining communities,
including Pokuase, Ayawaso and John Teye.
The consultant to the project,Mr Kwabena Bempong of Associate Consultants Limited,said major storm drains had been constructed as part of measures to control
flooding in and around the project area.
