Anxiety Heightens Amongst Commuters On Lagos Badagry Road

BY INNOCENT NORA   

Anxiety is heightened amongst users of the Lagos-Badagry road following the hardship they had been facing there in over ten years it had been under reconstruction.

The Eagle correspondent who measured the pulse of motorists and commuters on the stretch report that it is reading red, and this has to do with their usual misery daily going out and coming in, especially when it rains.
The advent of the rain then causes more damage to the already bad road and this is occasioned by the absence of drainage for the floods.

 A shop owner at the Trade Fair complex who simply identified himself as Mr. Bernard, a shop owner at Trade fare market said their experience had been terrible even before the rains, adding that commuting was set to become more frustrating

 “Everyday I wake up from my bed, my mind is prepared to trek to my shop because you can sit in the bus for 8 hours and not get to your destination.

“Taking of motorcycle is risky as I’ve witnessed many of my colleagues get into accidents on this same road”
Mrs. Sandra Ademola, a resident of Ojo local government told our correspondent that she had had to pay more getting vehicles to convey her goods each time.

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“Last week I went to Idumota to buy goods and I wanted to take a cab back,
“On telling the driver that I was going to Ojo his response was ‘madam, no taxi would go there, that road is bad abi you want make my motor spoil?’.

“I had to start jumping bus to get home for the day. Very disheartening as this road has taken too long to be done”.
The Eagle can report that extensive reconstruction of the expressway began in 2010 with the aim of widening it from four lanes to ten lanes for road vehicles and a new mass transit line that will operate in the median.

Two of the expressway’s lanes are intended to be exclusively used by the Lagos Bus Rapid Transit System but work on the road has been intermittent.
there are more reasons for anxiety: This year alone, there has been no less than eight tanker explosions on the axis and numerous fallen trailers.

The situation is worsened by constant heavy duty vehicles presence on the road, which has increased the incidence of accidents, loss of lives and property.

“The road is bad as it is yet these big vehicles keeps applying the road and causing people running for their lives and more havoc on the road. There’s nothing that we can do to avert the implications of this rainy season because our roads are bad and the pot-holes accumulate water and no drainage for it to flow into”.

Mr Joshua Husain, a resident of Ojo said, in expressing similar anxiety said despite this road being an international route that leads to other West African countries, it has not received the much needed special attention to get the reconstruction through with.

The damages on the road has remained colossal with motorists and commuters frustrated daily plying the road.