By Olasunkanmi Akoni

LAGOS – Following the persistent chaotic traffic situation on Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, the Lagos State Government, yesterday, set up a team of traffic managers to work out modalities on how to address the situation.

Similarly,  the state government will today  engage various unions and management of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, and Federal Ministry of Works in a stakeholders’ meeting to proffer a permanent solution to the menace of indiscriminate parking of tankers and containers (haulage) on roads in the state.

Apapa-Oshodi Expressway

The state Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Kayode Opeifa, told newsmen,  when he led a delegation of staff of the ministry on an unscheduled inspection of Apapa-Oshodi expressway, that the state government was disturbed by the persistent traffic gridlock on the  road, which is one of the biggest and busiest seaports in West Africa and beyond and generates huge revenues to the Federal Government.

In addition to the several tank farms located on the road, without loading bay, the commissioner noted that other factors contributing to the terrible traffic situation were the ongoing construction on the expansion of Apapa-Oshodi expressway project, the deplorable condition of the road, worsened by flooding and indiscriminate parking of tankers and other articulated vehicles, which reduce the carriageway capacity to one lane instead of three.