Hello Friend!
I am totally fed up with the deaths and disasters that we wake up to each day in this country! The worse part, is that these deaths and disasters, can be avoided if only our government would do the right things at the right time! Like repairing damaged roads, when funds have been made available for their repairs!
The Ojoo end of the Lagos- Ibadan expressway terminates the 110kilometre Oworonsoki-Lagos to Ojoo in Ibadan, Oyo State highway. Of the stretch, it’s the less than two kilometre Ojoo end of the road that remains uncompleted even after the road was opened 34 years ago. Work is still ongoing there but the spot remains notorious for fatal accidents.
As at Tuesday evening when Vanguard visited the spot, the latest contractor working on that section of the road, Messrs PW Nigeria was still watering the road, possibly getting ready for laying final asphalt.
Another crash again took place there around 2.a.m Wednesday that consumed a total of 11 vehicles. Thank God it took place in the night when human traffic on the road was minimal.
Limited access highway
The road was constructed by Julius Berger Nigeria (Oworonsoki to Sagamu Interchange) and Dumez Construction Company (Sagamu Interchange to Ojoo Ibadan). The road was opened to traffic in 1978.
It was designed as a limited access highway; with exits only at Sagamu and Ibadan Tollgate, with a tollgate in the middle at Ogere. The World Bank financed the project but later years observed that the road was not effectively managed.
People did whatever they liked on the road corridors, unchallenged by the owners of the road. Unplanned communities sprung up and road’s right of way encroached upon at various places like Ibafo, Redemption Camp Mowe and Ojoo in Ibadan.
The roadway is now so porous that any attempt at tolling will be confronted with impediments as in the experience of the concessionaire on the Lekki Expressway in Lagos State.
Source: Vanguard Nigeria
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Simply Cheska...
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