Christmas is tomorrow and many people are known to travel to their hometowns and various destinations for the celebration, but a visit by the GNA to some bus terminals in Accra does not reveal brisk activities.
At the Neoplen station, there were virtually no queues of travelers and most people seem to be at ease as they boarded vehicles onwards to their various destinations.
A station attendant, who spoke on anonymity, said although business was not that bad, it was not as good as previous years saying though the station had managed to procure additional buses, to augment the annual transport shortage, people were simply not traveling like before.
He said every Christmas, they had very high patronage to the extent that, people had to queue for very long hours before getting a bus to transport them to their destinations, but the patronage for this year was a bit low.
�You know this year�s Christmas is going to fall on a Tuesday, and most workers would be starting their Christmas break today, may be that is why most people are not trooping in, but we hope it would improve by the end of the day, or tomorrow.�
The situation at the Opera Station, Tudu and Tema stations was not that different as very few people were found in queues traveling home for the celebration.
Some passengers indicated that they had really had it quite easy this time traveling for the Christmas celebration saying they hope that the situation would always remain that calm every Christmas, so that they could travel with ease.
Adwoa Mansah, a trader at the Tema station, said business was not that good. Most people only come to town to do window shopping, and hardly buy anything adding that it may be due to the just ended political season.
She said the situation could be due to the prolonged aftermath of the just ended general elections and expressed the hope that business would start booming during the New Year celebration.
One thing remained unchanged this Christmas though, and that was the usual very heavy vehicular and pedestrian traffic along most principal streets of the capital.
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