If you never believed that our leaders are full of
wisdom, the imminent closure of the third Mainland Bridge Lagos from 24th
July, 2020 for a short period of only six months, is an irrefutable reason to
change your mind.
Those who ever witnessed or got stuck in the daily congestion of over
250,000 vehicles on Nigeria’s busiest 11.8 km long bridge would have
no problem imagining the total bliss that awaits Lagos commuters!
After all, we have a comforting alternative in the
equally choked Carter and Eko bridges which would now serve as the only link
from all of Mainland to the huge commercial hub that Lagos
Island represents! If you realize that there is no other route to link the vast
housing estates of Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Lekki, Ajah and the far communities bordering Epe, a
picture that emerges is like heaven on earth.
We are ordinary citizens and often we criticize government in sheer ignorance. What do we know about technical matters, especially what makes for an efficient traffic
architecture in a state as cosmopolitan as Lagos? For the
many weeks that the entire state was on total lock down, with the roads emptied of vehicles,
why did neither the Lagos State Traffic
Management Agency (LASTMA) nor the Federal Government thought of fixing this
long standing maintenance work on the Third Mainland Bridge? Those who ask such dumb questions don't know the way of governments.
In the last lock down we all slept peacefully in our homes. A second
is imminent in Lagos that is bound to keep us sleeping peacefully on the road! A thoughtful government in
action if ever there was one!
