Since work resumed on Tuesday, the ever-chaotic traffic situation on the Apapa end of the Apapa Oshodi expressway and the access roads in and out of the ports have disappeared temporarily, thanks to the Christmas and end-of-year celebrations and holidays.
Since work resumed on Tuesday, going into and coming out of Apapa have been unusually smooth, with the access roads devoid of the usual traffic madness and congestion.
The indication is that most of those who work in the private sector and other stakeholders in the port city of Apapa are yet to fully resume work.
Since work resumed on Tuesday, the ever-chaotic traffic situation on the Apapa end of the Apapa Oshodi expressway and the access roads in and out of the ports have disappeared temporarily, thanks to the Christmas and end-of-year celebrations and holidays.
Since work resumed on Tuesday, going into and coming out of Apapa have been unusually smooth, with the access roads devoid of the usual traffic madness and congestion.
The indication is that most of those who work in the private sector and other stakeholders in the port city of Apapa are yet to fully resume work.
The usual two hours journey from Oshodi to Apapa [Wharf] as a result of bad roads and indiscriminate parking of tankers and trailers gave way for smooth flow of vehicular traffic without any hitch since work resumed this week.
Surprisingly, a trip from Oshodi to the Tin Can Island port lasted for juts about 10 minutes even as trailers and tankers all queued up outside the port access road.
Shipping Position Daily also noticed excitement on the faces of some of the roads users within the port on an account of the free flow of traffic.
A tanker driver who identified himself as Sheriff Adamu said that aside from the removal of fuel subsidy, Lagos roads have not experienced gridlock since December 24th 2011 as most people had travelled out of the state for the festivities.
Sheriff said that the poor state of the road has not affected the smooth flow of traffic leading to the ports. “The roads leading to Apapa are quite bad, no doubt, but I must say that traffic situation here is great as I ply this route twice a day from Wharf to Ikorodu since late last year unlike what we used to encounter and with the fuel subsidy removal by the government, most people cannot afford to buy gas for their vehicles which I believe has contributed to the free flow of traffic in this axis and in Lagos as a whole’’, he stated.
Mr. Andrew Adidi, a commercial bus driver who also corroborated the tanker driver disclosed that it has been easy driving within Apapa since December regardless of subsidy removal by the government, but predicted that from next week, the traffic gridlock might resurface on the ports access roads.
He noted that the holiday is the major factor leading to the smooth flow of traffic in and around Apapa port and the Tin Can Island port.
According to him, “this is the right time for clearing agents and even the importers to clear their goods out of the port as it will be easier and convenient to transport containers out of the port’’.
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