The Federal Government has commenced reconstruction of the Apapa-Oshodi-Oworonsoki-Ojota Expressway.
The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos State, Adedamola Kuti, who disclosed this in Lagos on Wednesday, asked motorists to comply with traffic regulations in the areas where construction work is taking place.
Kuti, who was speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting in Lagos, assured that government would complete the reconstruction of the roads on schedule.
The stakeholders include truck owners associations, truck drivers associations, traffic regulatory agencies, ministry officials and law enforcement agencies.
He said the reconstruction would be divided into four sections and that the work was going to be done on all the sections simultaneously by different construction gangs.
He said that the stakeholders addressed issues of traffic management and regulations, assuring that traffic regulatory agencies would manage traffic better, adding that adequate diversion signs would be provided during the reconstruction.
“It is a 24-month contract and we want to finish within the period,” he said.
Kuti said that alternative routes were being rehabilitated to ease congestion, calling for the cooperation of motorists.
The Lagos Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Hyginus Omeje, assured that traffic would be properly managed in collaboration with other agencies in the course of the reconstruction.
He appealed to Lagos residents to use the waterways and mass transit buses to reduce congestion on the road.