{"id":226385,"date":"2026-03-08T13:37:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-the-big-push-on-roads-vs-rolling-stock-on-rails-its-impact-on-ghanas-24-hour-economy-1\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T13:37:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T11:37:53","slug":"ghana-the-big-push-on-roads-vs-rolling-stock-on-rails-its-impact-on-ghanas-24-hour-economy-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-the-big-push-on-roads-vs-rolling-stock-on-rails-its-impact-on-ghanas-24-hour-economy-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: The Big Push &#8211; &#8216;On&#8217; Roads Vs. Rolling Stock On Rails, Its Impact On Ghana&#8217;s 24-Hour Economy (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Ghana stands at a historic crossroads. As the nation boldly pursues its vision of a 24-hour economy &#8212; an economy that thrives around the clock, generates employment continuously, and integrates fully into global supply chains &#8212; the question of infrastructure strategy becomes not merely technical but existential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">For decades, Ghana has invested disproportionately in roads and road transport. While roads remain essential, an overreliance on this single mode of transport has exacted enormous costs:&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603050759.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana stands at a historic crossroads. As the nation boldly pursues its vision of a 24-hour economy &#8212; an economy that thrives around the clock, generates employment continuously, and integrates fully into global supply chains &#8212; the question of infrastructure strategy becomes not merely technical but existential. For decades, Ghana has invested disproportionately in roads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[26674,258,256,8559,5762,4508,4509,8226,5064,257,6354,16509,9013,34084,254,10974],"class_list":["post-226385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-24hour","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-big","tag-economy","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-impact","tag-news","tag-push","tag-rails","tag-roads","tag-rolling","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stock"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}