MTTD must check this practice

Dear Editor,

I have realised an attempt by some Metropolitan and District Assemblies to help school children to cross major roads on their way to school by placing personnel at certain points to ensure that.

The officials often appear in reflector lemon green vests and are positioned at vantage points and are seen stopping vehicles to enable the children cross over safely.

There are quite a few who are just doing it for the love for this children because they don’t work for the assemblies.

All the same, the effort is quite commendable but looking carefully at the way they go about this, I see the need for the Motor Transport and Traffic Directorate (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service or the appropriate agency to offer these personnel some training.

On one of my days to I work, I observed how a man just stepped on the road to stop speeding vehicles for the children to cross.

In the instance, the drivers had to apply instant brakes. A few got out to register their protest with the man’s approach while the children stood watching.

That was not the first time I witnessed such an incident. I believe that when such personnel are trained, they would be made to understand that the road must be ‘quiet’ to some extent before waving drivers to stop for the children to cross.

Through that, the children would also learn that it is not automatic that every vehicle must stop when they get to the crossing point.

I implore the MTTD to go out and identify some of the people positioned at those crossing points and train them to know much about the role.

Nii Kwei Marshall,

Adabraka