Rehabilitation: FG to Shut down Third Mainland Bridge Midnight Friday
The federal government will from midnight Friday enforce a partial closure of the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos State, for scheduled rehabilitation work to ensure that the major transportation facility does not collapse completely.
Though works on the important bridge, considered the busiest in the country with a total traffic of 132,702 vehicles per day, is expected to impact movement in and around the city, the federal government noted that road traffic managers will be deployed to minimise chaos. Fashola explained that the bridge, which links the Lagos Island with Lagos Mainland, was among the facilities designated for maintenance after a comprehensive assessment of the 37 bridges across the country.
While reiterating that the road will be formally closed to road users by midnight Friday, July 24, the minister also disclosed that a sum of N277 billion will be needed to rehabilitate all the 37 bridges across the country. The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps , Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, who also spoke during the event, said that a total of 250 personnel had been deployed to guide and administer road traffic within the period of the maintenance work to ensure free flow of traffic.
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