The Lagos State Government on Monday
announced plans to upgrade the network of roads in Ikeja to improve and
boost the economic stature of the seat of Government to world class
standard and to reduce traffic gridlock around the corridor to the
barest minimum, just as it revealed readiness to expand the Awolowo Way
with an elevated highway from the Ikeja Airport Hotel to Alausa.
Speaking at the ongoing Ministerial Press
Briefing held at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre to commemorate
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s one year in office, Commissioner for Works
and Infrastructure, Engr. Ganiyu Johnson said the elevated highway was
designed to decongest the traffic gridlock along Allen Round-about,
Kudirat Abiola Round-about and Agidingbi Road-about.
Johnson, who equally disclosed that there
would be an expansion of the Allen/Opebi Road to Odo Iya-Alaro via a
link bridge at Ogudu to the Third Mainland Bridge, said the network of
roads, when upgraded, would boost the economic activities in Ikeja,
adding that the development was in line with the vision of Governor
Ambode to transform Ikeja to a state capital in the real sense of it
commensurate with other capital cities in the world.
Highlighting the scorecard of the
Ministry so far, Johnson said the Lagos State Public Works Corporation
(LSPWC) worked on 540 roads from May 30, 2015 to April 5, 2016 out of
which outright rehabilitation was carried out on 32 of the roads, while
sectional patching and overlay was done on 509 roads, adding that 433 of
the roads have been successfully completed.
Some of the major roads rehabilitated by
the LSPWC, according to the Commissioner, included but not limited to
Alfa Nla Road in Agege, Metal Box Road in Ikeja, Ikotun-Ejigbo Road and
the ongoing road projects in Ajasa Command and Aboru.
He said: “At the inception of this
administration, this Ministry put in place a three-fold strategy for the
provision of road infrastructure. The short term measure is the
maintenance of existing roads known as “Operation Patch the Roads”,
being carried out by the LSPWC, while the medium term strategy is aimed
at the sustainability of existing roads, rehabilitation and construction
of new roads, reconstruction of existing and expansion of highways and
bridges.
“A total of 224 on-going road projects
were inherited from the previous administration in the various Local
Government Areas of the State and I wish to inform you that 42 of these
projects have been completed while construction works are still on-going
on others.”
He said government has already completed
the alignments of the proposed 4th Mainland Bridge, and that talks have
been held with a consortium of consultants in furtherance of the
project, while a Memorandum of Understanding would be signed before the
end of May.
Source: Lagos state government
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