Rough, Smooth Ride for Motorists, Commuters on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway

Checks by Business Post in the last week revealed that from the Lagos end of the expressway, motorists and commenters seem to be having a smooth ride and rough from the Ogun State end, especially after the Toll Gate area, as pointed out by a commercial bus driver plying the Lagos-Abeokuta route, Mr Segun Abayomi.

He lamented on Thursday that from Toll Gate inward Ogun State, most of the terrible and dilapidated points and bus stops have been neglected by the government, though repairs are ongoing, according to our correspondent, who plied the road from Ewekoro in Ogun State to Iceman in Lagos State today.

It was observed that caterpillars and bulldozers, as at the time of filling this report, were busy fixing the roads at major bus stops and points from Toll Gate inward Ogun State, precisely around Joju, Corn-oil area, Omiyale, Pakoto, Vulcanizer, Bungalow, and U-Turn near Mountain of Fire Church in Ifo, Ogun State.

A female trader, returning from Oshiodi, lamented while boarding a commercial bus, of the health hazard caused by the dust raised by the workers in tiling the roads. She said the dust was affecting commuters, motorists and others.

This was confirmed by this newspaper, though efforts are being made to water the ground around Omiyale, near The Apostolic Church Convention ground and parts of Aiyede, to address this issue.

Recall that some weeks ago, Business Post that the government was doing a quick fix on the road to ease the hardship citizens playing the expressway go through daily.

The road connects Lagos to the capital of Ogun State, Abeokuta, and is one of the busiest inter-state and intra-city routes in Nigeria, covering more than 250,000 PCUs daily and constitutes one of the largest road networks in Africa, according to Wikipedia.

In 2017, the Lagos State government announced plans to put a BRT lane on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway in two phases, with the first from Oshodi to Abule Egba, and the second from Abule Egba to Toll Gate, the boundary area between Lagos and Ogun States.