The Lagos-Ibadan Expressway:This is main gateway into Lagos, the nation’s hub of commercial activities. It is arguably the busiest and most traversed trunk road in Sub-Saharan Africa. It serves unquantifiable number of traffic daily such as heavy duty trucks, commuter buses and other vehicles to and from the Lagos metropolis to every other parts of Nigeria.
Such is the volume of traffic that the slightest hitch or accident soon snowball into serious chaotic traffic jam whose ripple effects if not properly managed as often the case soon degenerates into logjam and snarls that lasts for several man-hours loss.
Road happens to be the most common mode of transportation in Nigeria and accounts for more than 90 per cent of the sub-sector’s 3 per cent contribution to the Gross Domestic Product, GDP
Road transport activities involve the conveyance of passengers en-masse or in small numbers, the transportation of animals, farm produce and merchandise and the rendering of mobile services clinics, libraries and banks.
The situation on the Lagos- Ibadan expressway is being exacerbated by the acquisition of land along the same road by various religious organisations whose programmes particularly towards the end of the year multiply in many folds movement difficulties on the already pressurized road.
To worsen the matter, gullies have sprung up on the road with night marauders taking advantage of the helpless situation to rob innocent citizens of their hard earned valuables even sometimes their lives.
Sometimes the journey from Lagos to Ibadan that would have been made in slightly over an hour takes over eight hours usually because of the hitches experienced during end of year religious prorammes along the route.
Read More:http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/11/lagos-ibadan-benin-sagamu-expressways-remain-death-traps/
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