General News of Tuesday, 12 November 2019Source: 3news.comAccra to have first sky train station in August 2020The proposed SkyTrain initiative in Accra provides for the development of five routesThe concession agreement for the construction of the Accra Sky Train Project has been signed on the sidelines of the ongoing African Investment Forum in Johannesburg, South Africa. The signing of the agreement means feasibility studies, spanning a period of nine months to determine the bankability of the project will commence, with the investors assuring that the first station for the Accra Sky Train project will be opened in 9 months. The President thanked the SkyTrain Consortium for putting together the wherewithal that is allowing this project to go forward. The Accra Sky Train, according to him, “is meeting an important infrastructural need, and hopefully the step that is being taken today, that is signing the concession agreement, is bringing the project to much nearer conclusion. The Project envisages a total track length across all routes of 194 kilometres.

Source: GhanaWeb November 12, 2019 02:19 UTC