Yassa Truck Station to be relocated

The measure to displace it beyond the Dibamba bridge is to ease traffic on the Yaounde-Douala express way.

The administration in the Littoral Region has resolved to rid the economic capital, Douala, of one of its greatest traffic headaches around the Truck Station in Yassa. The decision was arrived at during the sixth meeting of the Regional Follow-up Committee of Truck Stations in Douala September 24.

Entering or leaving east of metropolitan Douala at the outskirts neighbourhood of Yassa, any road user would testify of the stressing and tiring wait in the area often due to queues of vehicles.

Most Douala inhabitants and visitors hold that travelling from the neighbourhood of Yassa to Yaounde or Yaounde to Yassa is faster than travelling from the outskirts Yassa to the heart of the city and vice versa.

The most causes are rigid traffic flow compounded by narrowness of the road with queues of trucks and other heavy-duty automobiles parked along the road. Ngobengoh S. Georgette spent three hours 20 minutes on the spot at Yassa while travelling to Douala from Edea, a distance that can be done in just 10 minutes.

Equating fuel waste with individual revenue, Nkeh Johnson, an interurban bus driver, said it is a great economic lost to both vehicle owners and government, and it does not for an economy striving towards emergence.

The Committee, chaired by the Governor of the Littoral Region, Joseph Beti Assomo, has recommended the relocation of the Truck Station, noting that Yassa has expanded into an urban centre and that the Station was set up very close to the road.

Security on the stretch will be beefed up with the redeployment of traffic police and gendarmes.