Accra SkyTrain was projected as a fully automated, elevated light railway metro network for

Accra Accra (; tw, Nkran; dag, Ankara; gaa, Ga or ''Gaga'') is the capital and largest city of Ghana, located on the southern coast at the Gulf of Guinea, which is part of the Atlantic Ocean. As of 2021 census, the Accra Metropolitan District, , ...

Greater Accra The Greater Accra Region has the smallest area of Ghana's 16 administrative regions, occupying a total land surface of 3,245 square kilometres. This is 1.4 per cent of the total land area of Ghana. It is the second most populated region, befor ...

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...

. The proposed network would have five routes, four of which are radial routes that originate at a new terminal at the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange, and another route that loops around the city. The total track length across all routes would have been . The announced system was going to use the

Aeromovel An atmospheric railway uses differential air pressure to provide power for propulsion of a railway vehicle. A static power source can transmit motive power to the vehicle in this way, avoiding the necessity of carrying mobile power generating eq ...

technology and will have capacity to carry 10,000 passengers per hour per direction on each route. In 2018 the Government of Ghana signed a MOU with ''AiSky Train Consortium'' of South Africa. Following completion of a feasibility study, in November 2019 the parties signed a build–operate–transfer concession agreement. The company will develop the system at an estimated cost of $2.6 billion. The government has said the project is a "100% private sector owned project" and is not government funded. No work has commenced and the project has been delayed due to legal questions and the coronavirus pandemic. In February 2021 the government announced it was intending to proceed but was waiting for reports from the Attorney General before submitting legislation to the parliament. By November that year it was finally revealed that it would not be made.

2010 monorail proposal

Accra Monorail was a 2010 proposal for a

monorail A monorail (from "mono", meaning "one", and "rail") is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail or a beam. Colloquially, the term "monorail" is often used to describe any form of elevated rail or people mover. More accurately, ...

line with 16 stations for

. The project did not proceed past the planning stage.

External References

AiSkyTrain Consortium homepage

References

{{reflist Rail transport in Ghana Railway lines in Ghana Proposed transport infrastructure in Ghana