Easter festivities: Long queues at transport terminals in Takoradi

There were long queues at the various transport terminals in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis on Thursday morning, as travellers anxiously waited for buses to convey them to their destinations for the Easter festivities.

The Ghana News Agency observed that vehicles at the lorry stations were not enough to convey the holidaymakers to their destinations.

The Takoradi Station Master in charge of Yutong VVIP bus terminal, Mr. Emmanuel Baiden, said buses in Accra were not getting enough passengers for Takoradi hence the shortage of buses at the terminal.

He said that two 14-seater buses left Takoradi for Accra around 0500 hours on Thursday morning, and since then no vehicle had come from Accra at the time of the GNA visit.

A driver at the Inter-city Express Terminal in Takoradi, Mr. Mawuli Dotor, told the GNA that the station had been experiencing shortage of buses to both Kumasi and Accra.

Alfred Eshun, former Station Master at the Koforidua bus station, said demand for vehicles had increased since Wednesday due to the rush for the impending Kwahu Easter and paragliding festival in the Eastern Region.

There were many holidaymakers anxiously waiting for vehicles to travel by, at the Metro Mass Transit yard in Takorad.

Mr. Martin Hagan, a station master there, said five buses had conveyed 62 passengers to Accra as at 0430 hours early this morning while four buses had transported over 60 passengers to Kumasi.

He said the number of passengers had increased since last Monday because students of second cycle schools were travelling home for Easter celebrations.

Source: GNA