Intensify public education on the use of pedestrian footbridge in the country – MP for Essikado-Ketan
The Member of Parliament for Essikadu-Ketan Constituency, Professor Dr. Grace Ayensu-Danquah, has called for an increase in public education on the use of footbridges and pedestrian crosses in the country to prevent accidents.
Contributing on the floor of Parliament on the attitudinal failure of the public to effectively use the pedestrian footbridge as a road safety measure, Dr. Ayensu said public education on jaywalking should be encouraged.
Jaywalking is the act of crossing a street or road outside of a designated crosswalk.
She, however, believes that the real issue is the design of some of the footbridges in the country that need to be reconstructed to make them easily accessible by pedestrians.
Her advocacy underscores the importance of addressing road safety concerns through a multi-faceted approach that involves education, infrastructure development, and community engagement.
Dr. Grace Ayensu Danquah also call on the minister for roads and highways to look at the Kojokrom bridge to create a footpath to help prevent fatal accidents in the community.
” We need to do public education on jaywalking, but the real issue is the design of the footbridges. The footbridges are not in the right place. They are not in the area where there’s heavy traffic. Experts should relook at the design.
And I’m also calling an expert to relook at construction, and that why, I’m making that specific statement. So if we look at the design, I believe that we’ll make the footbridges less complicated. So that, the handicapped people will be able to access these footbridges,”
“These footbridges will be in places where there’s serious heavy traffic so that people will not be forced to jaywalk. Now, I truly believe that there should be public education on jaywalking, but I also believe that sometimes design can also be attitudes or attitudinal changes so that we can use the design to change attitudes.”
” I’d like to commend the maker of the statement again, and I would also like to call on the minister for roads to also look at, in the Essikado -Ketan constituency to look at the bridge. It’s been a bridge that has been in existence since the colonial days. It is on a major highway. There is no footpath to that bridge, and so there are a lot of accidents on the road,”
“So I like to take this unique opportunity to call on the Minister of Roads and Highways to really look at the Kojokone Bridge and see if we can give them a footpath to prevent the major accidents and morbidity and mortality that is happening on that road,”
