The Federal Government has indefinitely suspended the
proposed repair work earlier scheduled to begin on the Third Mainland
Bridge Sunday.
The Lagos Sector Commander of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Charles
Akpabio, said the postponement of the repairs is intended to put more
measures in place to ease possible traffic congestion the closure of
bridge will create.
Mr Akpabio urged all motorists in Lagos to go about their activities and wait for further information on the bridge repair.
The FRSC had explained that traffic information would be communicated
from time to time via Radio, Television, Newspapers and social media
network.
The commission said that as the lead agency in traffic management in
Nigeria, it had concluded plans to coordinate the various traffic
agencies involved in the exercise.
He noted that Section 15 of the FRSC Act 2007 clearly stipulated that
the operation of the Corps should cover all public roads, adding that
the Corps statutory responsibility is to control and enforce traffic
regulations on public roads “as we did during the 2008 maintenance work
on the Third Mainland Bridge.”
The Third Mainland Bridge was to have been closed for about five
months beginning Sunday and to be re-opened on November 6, 2012.
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