Following the frequent traffic gridlock experience by motorists in some
highways in the state metropolis, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority
(LASTMA) yesterday said that it would longer condone indiscriminate parking on
the highways.
The agency also declared zero tolerance for motorists most especially company
staff buses and private cars who park, pick or drop passenger at will
along the Third Mainland Bridge particularly in ward Alapere and Lagos
Island respectively with effect from Monday July, 15th, 2013.
This, the traffic management authority said, would promote good usage of road
network, reduce traffic congestion and restore sanity on Iyana Oworo axis and
its environs.
Speaking on the development, the General Manager, Engr Babatunde Edu, said the
flagrant and indiscriminate parking by motorists, especially company staff
buses and private cars to either pick or drop passenger at the main exit and
entrance of the Third Mainland Bridge is responsible for the endless traffic
congestion witness daily on the axis.
He said:"The volume of traffic gridlock on that axis is caused by private
cars, staff buses who park and pick pedestrians or their colleagues on the
highway We are set to clamp down on any motorists who park recklessly on
the high way, particularly in Iyana-Oworo axis. Stressing further that
henceforth motorists should move toward the Iyana Oworo Layby
which is primarly designed for picking and dropping of
passengers as LASTMA will no longer tolerate reckless parking on the highway. If
we all do what is right, there is no way such traffic congestion will be that
much."
"The avoidable traffic usually associated with Iyana Oworo as a result of
the nonchalant attitude of drivers who disengage, pick and sometimes park
to wait for their friends, family or colleagues thereby making other road users
go through undue hardship as a result of long hours spent in traffic.
Edu, however, stressed that it became imperative for the agency to enforce law
and order on the axis.
The LASTMA boss urged motorists in the State to always obey traffic rules and
regulations as these rules are made in their own interest, adding that this is
crucial in order to forestall preventable accident and loss of lives.
He added that LASTMA officials have been strategically positioned to enforce
and contravene defaulters of this directive.
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