The Mayor of Accra, Michael Allotey, says he is reviving the Red Line initiative to tackle the chaos on the city\u2019s streets and promises this time, it will not fail.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I\u2019m going to have a red line, which former Mayor Alfred Okoe Vanderpuye did,\u201d he said on\u00a0PM Express<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m going to have a similar Red Line tomorrow [Thursday, May 21]. So they\u2019re going to stay behind the line, and the leaders will control them.\u201d<\/p>\n Mayor Allotey says this new approach is different because he is working directly with market women and making them central to the process.<\/p>\n \u201cI promise one thing, I\u2019m going to work with a market woman,\u201d he said. \u201cYou see, today during the decongestion exercise, the market women understood that we have to fix this.\u201d<\/p>\n He noted that the failure of past attempts was partly because mayors ignored the knowledge and influence of the traders themselves.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is a problem that most of the time, the Mayors don\u2019t deal with the market women directly. But this time, I\u2019m dealing with them, and they know the problem, because they are in there, and they know how to go about them.\u201d<\/p>\n The Mayor revealed that the traders themselves suggested the solution.<\/p>\n \u201cThey have told me what they want me to do for them, and this is what I\u2019m going to do for them. One, they want me to have leaders from their camp. Maybe I\u2019ll pick four or five of them to be their leader.\u201d<\/p>\n He promised that this initiative is not just another short-lived campaign.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not something that\u2019s another nine-day wonder thing, but it\u2019s something that has come to stay, and I want it to stay because it\u2019s something I want to do, such that if I\u2019m no more the mayor, it\u2019s one of the things I want to leave behind. For a legacy to be that when the mayor said he will clear the road, he made sure he left the road clear.\u201d<\/p>\n When host Evans Mensah pointed out that the previous Red Line under Vanderpuye did not hold, the Mayor admitted the flaws in the old system and outlined a more forceful plan.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need men to guide the red line,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the only thing we did at that time was we just picked the people from the market women and the market men to guide the red line.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis time, I\u2019m bringing over 1000 youth to run day and night.\u201d<\/p>\n He tied the effort to the NDC’s 24-hour economy vision, stating that Accra will lead the way.<\/p>\n \u201cThe 24-hour economy policy, I want it to start from AMA. AMA is going to start 24-hour ticketing, clearing refuse, putting a task force in place, etc. Everything will be on 24 hours. We\u2019re going to work to make sure the city stays alive until morning.\u201d<\/p>\n Mayor Allotey stressed that this time, the city\u2019s transformation will be sustained. \u201cSo, this time is not something that is like previously, no.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mayor of Accra, Michael Allotey, says he is reviving the Red Line initiative to tackle the chaos on the city\u2019s streets and promises this time, it will not fail. \u201cSo I\u2019m going to have a red line, which former Mayor Alfred Okoe Vanderpuye did,\u201d he said on\u00a0PM Express. \u201cI\u2019m going to have a similar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":11070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3424],"tags":[3550,3551],"class_list":["post-11069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional","tag-mayor-of-accra","tag-michael-allotey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11071,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11069\/revisions\/11071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}