LAGOSIANS TAKE NOTE: Third Mainland Bridge repairs and routes

 

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Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos

What Lagos drivers should know about using the Third Mainland Bridge while it under repairs

Following the ongoing repairs on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos, the state’s traffic officials, security agents, and engineers from Borini Prono Construction Company, the organisation handling the repair works, commenced the diversion of traffic from the Oworoshoki axis of the bridge at about 11.30 a.m. on Sunday.

Motorists going to Lagos Island were diverted to Oworoshoki-Ikorodu road, en route Adekunle Street,  to the Island.

Some commuters at Iyana-Oworo bus stop, who were waiting for public transport at the entrance of the bridge, were stranded as they did not know about the diversion.

Edith Mamah, a housewife going to Obalende- after church service- said she was surprised that that there were no vehicles plying the road from the Oworonshoki end.

Ms. Mamah said she had spent about 30 minutes at the bus stop before they were informed about the diversion.

Another commuter, Bayo Adesanya, said it would be difficult now for residents of Oworonshoki, a suburb of Lagos, to go to Lagos Island.

The traffic was low on the axis coming from the mainland. Officials of the police, the Federal Road Safety Corps, and the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, were seen managing the situation.

The Lagos State Commissioner for Transport, Kayode Opeifa, on Sunday, said the repair of the Third Mainland Bridge is a routine one aimed at safeguarding the transport infrastructure.

Mr. Opeifa said the diversion of traffic on the bridge would last four months.

He noted that similar repairs were carried out on the bridge in 2008 and urged members of the public to bear with the government.

“We know that during major repairs of this magnitude, there would be mixed feelings; there would be inconvenience to some. This repair work is supposed to be on a regular basis so that members of the public should be used to it.

“We need to pay attention to this bridge. It is an 11-kilometre long bridge. But the traffic situation would be adequately managed. We appeal to motorists to be patient and careful,”  Mr. Opeifa said.  

The Minister of Works, Mike Onanormenmen, on Friday, in Lagos, flagged off the second phase and additional works for the repairs of eight expansion joints of the Third Mainland Bridge.