Saturday, October 11, 2008

traffic woes in Accra?? chapter 1: Gv 713 Q


Driving in Ghana can be very stressful...Itz seems lyk everyone is in a hurry to go somewhere, and makes you wonder...!!!! is there a free promotion going on somewhere that you do not know about?
Basically every driver in ghana seems to know more about the driving rules than the 'DVLA'.... Most of the blame is centered around Trotro Drivers, Taxi Drives and Truck Drivers....lots of people say they drive recklessly and are the cause of all if not most of the accidents we have in the country, but i have witnessed, certain so called posh people who tend to think they are better of than anyone else, because they wear 5$ suits or own cars and thus are by far better off than Trotro drivers etc,.... committing all sorts of driving offence.... This is not tryn to say that public drivers are blameless, basically all I'm tryn to say is the private drivers shld take some responsibility for accidents and traffic caused in our country. I mean if people wld just stick to the lanes they are in and not try to find shortcuts where there aren't any and learn to give people way when and if they ask properly i think everything would move smoothly on the roads of accra..if you use the legon road frequently i believe you wld understand what i'm talking about.......Something funny happened to me recently..... i was on my way back from Akosombo and as i approached the toll booth, various number of cars passed by the side of the road and so i ask one government driver who was tryn to cut into my lane from the side by sayn " do you think what you are doing is right? and then he starts begging and pleads with me to let him pass through. so i say no and make him aware off the wrong thing that he is doing... he gets angry and says Me ye too known... meaning that i think that i'm all that. ................... and goes on to say i shld fold the road and take it home if i'm not going to give him way'... can u believe this guy..... to be continued

2 comments:

Abena Serwaa said...

I agree Trotro drivers are not to blame but tell me, why is it they can't look left when entering a road? Is it in the GPRTU handbook? Some taxi drivers are annoying because when they don't have a customer they move as slow as possible and when they do, they move like the devil is chasing them! Speaking of posh people...once saw a so-called posh guy park his jaguar on the road side, whip out his family jewels and take a leak...He needs a socalled "mad man" to come and whip him. Whatever happened to the Vice President's initiative against indiscipline? We have become way more indisciplined since then! But the posh parts of Accra ie Airport, by the Airport, 37, Cantonments are looking much better with the advent of zoomlion..

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