By SEBASTINE OBASI

 

Traffic gridlock on Apapa/Oshodi express road, due to due to what many motorists and commuters termed “slow construction” of the road by Julius Berger. Road users lamented as they spent several hours in the “unprecedented” gridlock. Photo: Bunmi Azeez

 

Businesses on the ever busy Oshodi-Apapa expressway were paralysed, yesterday, as a result of the heavy traffic gridlock that began Wednesday night.

Though construction work by Julius Berger had been going on, thereby causing traffic jam in the past, yesterday’s traffic which started from Sanya Bus-stop was said to have been caused by tanker drivers waiting to load their products at the tank farms located in Apapa.

Motorists who plied the road literally crawled from the Second Rainbow Bus stop to both the Tin Can and Apapa wharfs as the road was completely blocked.

As a result of the development, a journey that normally took about six minutes lasted about  three hours.

Most workers who passed through the road to their various destinations eventually got there after office hours had ended.