Aayalolo contra-flow: Are we treating the symptom instead of the disease?

Therefore, if government wants motorists to leave their cars at home, it must make public transport sufficiently reliable, frequent, affordable, comfortable and predictable to compete with the convenience of the private car.

The government’s argument is straightforward: put high-capacity Aayalolo buses on dedicated contra-flow lanes, move more passengers at once, and encourage private motorists to abandon their cars for public transport.

Accra’s traffic crisis is fundamentally a public-transport, urban-planning and commuting crisis.