Third Mainland Bridge Has Been Closed. What Next?
With an estimated 20 million people, Lagos is Africa’s most populous city with the highest population density in Nigeria.
With the budget sum of N18.875bn, the rehabilitation work is expected to run for 27 months and will be carried out by Borini Prono, one of the consortia of companies that built the bridge in the 1980s. John has been on the road for four hours; he’s trying to connect the usable part of the Eko Bridge through the National Theatre entry point. John throws out his head intermittently to check what could be the cause of the traffic but all he could see from a short distance are a long queue of heavy-duty vehicles.“There is traffic everywhere now, as you can see, but shutting down the Third Mainland Bridge . . . I don’t know what is going to happen but people are going to suffer,” he said.
“The test was carried out in 2019. We have analysed the results; now we want to replace it, so it’s not as if we intentionally want to close all the bridges, but because we just have to work on it to prevent calamity,” Popoola said. According to Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the bridge’s traffic will only be disrupted by 25 percent.
Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, believes the Federal Government had no choice but to partially shut down the bridge.Rehabilitation work is ongoing at a section of the Eko Bridge. Worn-out bearings noticed between Alaka and Costain portion inwards Apongbon are being worked on.
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