LASTMA Finds Solution to Apapa Gridlock

Fri, Dec 4, 2015
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THE Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, has started plans to relocate trailers and containers to the premises of the Lagos Trade Fair Complex as part of efforts to find lasting solution to the persistent traffic gridlock at Apapa caused mainly by indiscriminate parking of trucks.

Chris Olakpe, chief executive officer of the LASTMA, who disclosed this on Wednesday, December 2, during an on-the-spot assessment of the Trade Fair Complex with stakeholders, said the relocation was part of measures the government was considering to allow free flow of traffic in the axis.

According to Olakpe, plans have been concluded to organise a stakeholders’ meeting with a view to finding lasting solution to the perennial traffic log jam at Apapa.

The retired assistant inspector-general of Police said there was need to improve the synergy between all stakeholders, stressing that the state government, through the agency, would ensure that all traffic laws in the state were obeyed while violators would be punished according to the dictates of the law.

He maintained that the LASTMA would no longer tolerate indiscipline and indiscriminate parking on Lagos roads, which he said had been the major cause of traffic gridlock being experienced in some parts of Lagos.

On the plans of the LASTMA for the yuletide period, Olakpe admonished motorists not to drink and drive while ensuring that only vehicles that are road worthy ply the road.

He stressed that operation “arrest, impound and prosecute, AIP” would be fully employed during and after the yuletide period.

On his own part, Bashir Braimah, general manager of the LASTMA, reiterated the determination of the current administration to ease the traffic situations on major roads and highways in the state.

Braimah said obeying traffic laws in a mega city like Lagos had become imperative, assuring that the government was set to provide the right infrastructure and relevant laws that would enhance free flow of traffic on all major roads.

— Dec 14, 2015 @ 01:00 GMT

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