Road users on Accra-Tema motorway to pay tolls after expansion works
Commuters on the Accra-Tema motorway will start paying tolls again after the completion of expansion works on the road.
Similarly, users of other newly constructed roads would also have to pay road tolls to use those roads.
The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta said this when he presented the Mid-year budget review statement in Parliament on Monday (July 25, 2022).
He said the completed road will be tolled to help recover the whole cost.
The toll will also be to “pay lenders and provide a return for equity investors, the minister said.
The collection of road tolls nationwide was stopped in November 2021.
Under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) programme for road infrastructure, the Accra-Tema Motorway and Extension PPP Project to 10 lanes is currently at its procurem...