THE Department of Urban Roads (DUR) in Tamale has earmarked selected roads in the metropolis to be repaired this year.
The repairs will involve the regravelling, reshaping, weeding the grass along the roads to enhance visibility and repairing drains in suburbs such as Shishegu, Lamashegu, and Choggu-Yalpasi.
The Metropolitan Roads Engineer, Mr John Ofori Ankomah, told the Daily Graphic that “two contractors are being processed” for the job.
According to him, a comprehensive drainage system needed to be developed to avert the destruction of access roads in some suburbs.
He observed that when the rains subsided work on the selected roads would be completed in good time.
Residents in such suburbs as Gurugu, Vitting, Koblimahagu, Kukuo, Gbewaa Bilpeila and parts of Gumani have expressed concern about the bad nature of access roads in their respective areas.
They noted that the annual ritual of flooding in their areas which resulted in the destruction of access roads needed to be checked urgently.
Some of them mentioned in particular the inconvenience they encountered anytime they drove their vehicles or rode their motorbikes on the bad roads.
“Sometimes our vehicles get stuck on the roads and need to be towed away. In fact the situation is not the best”, Mr Ismaila Ibrahim, a public servant complained.
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