The Minister of Works and
Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday, provided a latest update on the
closure of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos State.
He also thanked the Lagos State
Government and residents for their patience during the ongoing repairs of the
Third Mainland Bridge.
Fashola while inspecting the
bridge also called for more understanding saying that the planned three days
total closure was important for completion and delivery of a safe and strong
bridge for use, NAN reports.
He said that from midnight of
Friday to midnight of Sunday the bridge would be totally shut for important
repairs to make the bridge last, but that the former normal diversions would
return on Monday when the bridge would be reopened to partial traffic
diversion.
According to him, the bridge was
one of the 50 nationwide, undergoing repairs in line with the national
infrastructure maintenance programme and the national infrastructure renewal
and expansion program of the Buhari administration.
“We have seen joints and bearings
replaced at different stages. We have seen the ones that are being freshly
drilled to be removed and replaced.
“We have seen the ones that have
been replaced and ready to receive concrete.
“We have seen the ones that are
being dirt sprayed to clean it up completely to ensure that when the concrete
is put, there will be binding. We are now at the last one that has been dirt
sprayed and ready to take concrete.
“All the work we have done will
not make sense if we don’t pour this concrete and this is why regrettably we
have to close this section of the bridge,” he said.
Fashola explained the process of
repairs stating that all efforts would be a waste without the most critical
stage needing the three days closure for the concrete to properly ‘cure’.
“By Monday the diversions that
you are used to will return, our work has not finished, we are going to finish
this programme in January next year.
“It is now important to protect the sections that have been finished so that our tolerance, our forbearance would not have been in vain so that when the work is done, we will have almost a new bridge that will last very long, ” he said.
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