VEHICULAR MOVEMENT has become increasingly difficult in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital, in recent days.

All the major roads in the boisterous city have virtually been filled with vehicles of different brands, thereby restricting traffic.

As a result of this, a journey in the city, which ideally was supposed to last for ten minutes can now last for one hour or even more.

This unpleasant development has created discomfort and hardship for the residents of the city, including drivers and pedestrians.

Press1News checks revealed that the upcoming Christmas season is the main reason for the unusual traffic in the city.

Heavy vehicular traffic has become an annual ritual in the city anytime that the Yuletide season, which is few days away, approaches.

This year is of no exception as the vehicular traffic syndrome is being witnessed in all the roads in the Ashanti Regional capital.

Kumasi is a big business center therefore people from the nearby communities and even other regions, come there to trade.

The Christmas season has, however, greatly intensified business activities, hence the massive vehicular traffic in the city.

Some of the drivers that spoke to the paper during a visit to Adum, the city center, said it’s difficult to drive through the city of late.

According to some of the commercial drivers, they now have to remain in heavy traffic for long hours, which adversely affect them,

Some of the shop owners also bemoaned that despite the heavy vehicular traffic, business has been very slow to their dislike.

“Our goods are not being purchased because money is very difficult to come by these days”, Kofi Poku, a shop owner, decried.

He therefore urged the government to implement policies that would ensure that money is in the system to save business owners.

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