Prioritising urban mobility and accessibility for a sustainable future [Video]

As the world urbanizes at an unprecedented rate, cities face the daunting challenge of ensuring that their citizens can move around efficiently, safely, and sustainably.

In Ghana’s Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), this challenge is particularly pressing, with rapid growth and urbanization putting a strain on transportation infrastructure and services.

Minister for Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah (MP), during the Urban Mobility Forum noted that, the implementation of the Ghana Urban Mobility and Accessibility Project (GUMAP) in the past 8 years.

Themed “Prioritising Sustainable Urban Mobility and Accessibility in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA).

This intervention is a 6 million USD grant from the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).

Based on findings from a scoping study, the Project was designed to look beyond the conventional infrastructure-focused urban mobility and accessibility projects such as construction of urban roads, interchanges, bridges among others.

On his …