Motorists
on the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway and the Ijora-Apapa bridge in Lagos are once
again back to what has been described as an endless drama of pain, as trailer
and tanker drivers have taken over these routes in defiance of stakeholders’
directive that they should occupy only one lane on the expressway.
It
has been a total gridlock on these roads in the last four days, making
motorists spend three to four hours commuting to work and lose productive hours
of their day in the gridlock that is impacting on their health.
Benson
Ohgifo, a journalist whose office is in Apapa shared his experience with
BusinessDay. He said it ordinarilly takes him just 30 minutes to reach Ijora
Bridge from Lekki Phase One, but that yesterday the journey took three hours.
Investigations also revealed that transport fares on the Apapa route increased
by more than 100 percent yesterday.
