The Nigerian Ports Authority
(NPA) is consulting with the Lagos State Government for Bus Rapid Transport
(BRT) lanes along the Apapa route to ease traffic gridlock.
Managing Director of NPA, Hadiza
Bala Usman, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday.
Usman noted that the introduction
of BRT lanes along the corridor will discourage port road users from plying the
route in their personal vehicles and further improve traffic management along
port area.
“The management is also aware of the menace of commercial vehicle drivers along the roads leading in and out of Apapa.
“And in order to reduce the menace, the management of NPA is already in talks with the officials of Lagos State Government with a view to introducing BRT along the Apapa Traffic corridor.
“It is our belief that when BRT is introduced, this will discourage port workers from plying the route in their personnel vehicles which will in turn improve traffic along the roads”, she stated.
The NPA boss added that the management
of Tin Can Island Container Terminal (TICT) was being involved in finding
solution to all the operational challenges being encountered by the
concessionaire.
On the refusal of shipping
companies and tank farm operators to use their holding bays for receipt of
empty containers and trucks waiting to load respectively, she pointed out that
the authority will hold an interactive session with concerned groups where such
issues would be treated.
According to Usman, shipping
companies would be directed to use their holding bay for receipt of empty
containers.
She disclosed a letter has been
written to the Directorate of Petroleum Resources, an agency of the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on the need to direct all tank farms to
have holding bay for tankers to avert unnecessary queue of trucks along the
corridor.
Usman assured that issue of
multiple security check points had been stopped with the directive given to all
security agencies to carry out their statutory functions in a single interface
and “they have been directed not to stop any truck loaded with cargo within and
outside the port under the guise of security check”
The NPA also commended members of
Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) for their concern and
suggestions on ways to ease traffic flow during the construction work on
Wharf-Leventis Road, Apapa.
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