As palliative works on the bad sections of the road along the Lagos-Badagry expressway commences, motorists using the busy international highway appear more concerned about cases of robbery of road users which is a recurring decimal along the corridor especially when there are no functional street lights and effective security patrol by the relevant security agencies at peak periods of the day.
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The Lagos state government had last week announced a number of traffic diversions from the major carriageway to the service lane on the Lagos-Badagry expressway between Saturday and Sunday. But checks reveal that even after the 48 hours time frame set aside for the job to be completed, the contractor handling the project are still seen on the affected portions of the corridor.
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Special adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on works and infrastructure, Aramide Adeyoye said last week that the diversion was to enable the contractors’ launch beams at the Alakija Interchange Bridge.
She advised motorists coming from Agboju to Trade fair to use alternative routes before the Alakija flyover into the service lane and enjoined motorists to journey through the diversion on the service lane and divert into the main carriageway after the Alakija interchange and continue inward Badagry.
The affected area according to her is the Segment II of Lot 2A (Agboju-Trade Fair) inward Badargy only as the Lagos bound traffic is not affected.
In a statement signed by Adesegun Ogundeji, deputy director, and public affairs of the ministry, the special adviser appealed to motorists and road users on the axis to bear with the government adding that, the measure was appropriate for speedy completion and delivery of the road.
“Palliative works have been carried out on the bad sections of the road such as the intersections into the service lane before Alakija flyover, the junction between the access road into Festac at the 3rd gate and the intersection after the Alakija interchange into the main carriage lane from the service lane. The repair was to effectively manage traffic and reduce the impact of the diversion on road users’’. She said.
