Contractors who were awarded contracts to rehabilitate portions of the roads in the Sekondi/Takoradi metropolis have finally started work on the potholes, following the Daily Graphic’s publications on the state of the roads in the twin-city.
Their performance is rather worsening matters for road users and various commuters.
This is because the contractors have rather expanded the potholes and left them unattended to for the past three weeks.
This is causing a lot of inconvenience, making driving in the metropolis tortuous.
For instance a portion of the road that links the Takoradi Polytechnic and Sekondi/Takoradi is in a very bad shape.
Where the contractor fills the potholes the situation becomes worse when it rains.
Apart from the road infront of T-Poly, the road linking the Accra-Takoradi main road and the STMA road through the cocoa flats and other parts of the metropolis are in a very bad shape.
The Fijai-Effia-Nkwanta road which was recently completed is also developing potholes.
Some motorists told the Daily Graphic that the best thing for the contractor to do was to tackle what they could do at a time and not to go round digging every part of the metropolis when they were not ready to fill them. They also questioned the quality of the material used in filling the potholes.
“It is wrong for the contractor to have workers enlarging the potholes, when those doing the filling are nowhere to take care of them,” a motorist said.
The situation is so bad because the region has an unpredictable rainfall pattern and after a very brief downpour, the potholes are filled with water instead of the solid compacted materials.
The enlarged potholes have become manholes filled with stagnant water.
One of the dangerous portions of the road can be found at the new site, and on the road leading towards the T-poly, erosion has washed away the concrete slabs on both sides of the road.
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