The Federal Road Safety Corps
(FRSC) Ogun State Command, has announced that there will be a partial closure
of a section of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway for rehabilitation.
In a statement, Florence Okpe,
the agency’s route commander and public education officer, said the
construction firm, Julius Berger Nigeria PLC, will begin the rehabilitation of
the lanes inward Lagos from August 3.
He said the Lagos-inbound traffic
will be diverted to the second lane, as he urged motorists to drive within the
speed limit of 50km per hour.
“This is to bring to the
attention of the public, that in view of the ongoing road rehabilitation work
on the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway, the construction company, Julius Berger Nigeria
PLC has notified the Corps of extension of rehabilitation work on the
Expressway from around Berger to KARA bridge (otherwise known as Ogun river
bridge, around the Kara cattle market) on the Lagos-Ibadan section of the
Expressway, covering 1.4 kilometers commencing from Saturday 03 August 2019.
“The rehabilitation work which
would initially affect 600 meters of the corridor would cause the temporary
closure of the inward Lagos traffic, to enable the construction company effect
the rehabilitation of the road and temporary diversion of traffic that would
transfer the Lagos inbound traffic to the same carriageway conveying traffic
outward Lagos, thereby making both the traffic inward and outward Lagos
accommodated on the same section of the Expressway.
“The general public ,especially
motorists are advised to use alternative corridors like the Epe/Ajah – Ijebu –
Ode ; Lagos – Ota – Itori – Abeokuta, and Ikorodu – Sagamu as alternative
routes to access Lagos,” the statement read.
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