The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, at the weekend urged the contractors handling the reconstruction, rehabilitation and expansion of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to ensure smooth journey experience for travellers during the forthcoming festivities.
Fashola, who undertook the inspection tour on the roads while returning from Ilorin where he attended the 5th National Council on Land, Housing and Urban Development, asked the contractors to making driving experience more tolerable for travellers.
He said: “You must plan your work in such a way that you’re able to accommodate that traffic and also help to make the journey time of commuters better during that period.
“They will be travelling home and coming back, and I also will like you to improve the safety signs on this highway.”
Noting the Moslem festival, Eid-el-Kabir was around the corner and end of the year festivities like Christmas and the New Year were fast approaching, the Minister urged the contractors to consciously plan to accommodate the expected high volume of traffic from the events.
”Start calibrating your activities to prepare to take in that traffic. It will come but the big one will come I think sometime in the end of the year when everybody is moving back from home. The target is to make that experience better than last year’s,” Fashola said.
He also disclosed the contractors were also changing all the expansion joints on the section of the bridge between Berger and Arepo in Ogun State, popularly called the Long Bridge, which, according to him, are about 40 years old.
He added when works on the bridge were finished, motorists would experience something smoother and a better travel time as against the harrowing experience of the recent past.
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