Conceived as a strategic link road within the Ojo Local Government, home to Alaba International Market, the Ariyo- Tedi link road and bridge was over the weekend commissioned by the Lagos State Government.
The 1.345km road and 55 metre bridge was executed by Messers Lopek Engineering Construction Limited after the original contractor Messrs Moreno-Marinas-Lagoon failed to execute the project.
Speaking at the event, the State Governor, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu who was represented by his Deputy, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, noted that the continued construction of some roads is in accordance with the agenda of his administration, the T.H.E.M.E.S agenda. Which include Traffic Management and Transportation. Its objective is to save important man-hours that would have been otherwise lost to traffic gridlock, boost inter-connectivity across the state and to generally make life better for commuters.
While empathizing with the human beings in the locality, the governor said that “one of the maximum critical challenges skilled daily via residents and road users alongside the Lagos-Badagry Expressway is the perennial gridlock occasioned via the ongoing reconstruction works alongside the corridor, with its attendant inconveniences and loss of valuable time”.
According to him, one of the approaches we need to cope with this task is to redirect site visitors to internal roads by using imparting diversions and opportunity routes in the course of the period of production. It is for this reason that we determined to finish the construction works on the Ira-Muwo Link Bridge, which we are commissioning today”.
Sanwo-Olu but appealed to all stakeholders along with traders, commuters, shipping union, delivery operators and keep owners to take possession of government centers declaring with the aid of warding off all actions in an effort to compromise their excellent and lifestyles-span. “These projects belong to all of you and you have to shield them jealously and treat them with utmost care” He said.
The Governor entreated the humans to preserve peace and order in the direction of assignment execution of their area, noting that challenge of entirety and the commissioning is feasible because of the existence of peace. Saying "Without peace there can't be improvement. Development will best get to us if there is peace ".
Earlier in her comments, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Aramide Adeyoye stated that consistent with the Sanwo-Olu’s Agenda which aims to deal with the mission of site visitors gridlock, the Government strategically thought it via to finish the Ariyo (Mile 10)- Ira-Muwo-Tedi-Abule Oshun road alignment with Reinforced Concrete Bridges.
She defined that the finishing touch of Ariyo (Mile 10) Ira Muwo- Tedi- Abule Oshun avenue alignment with link bridges seeks to provide a functional bypass to the Lagos-Badagry Expressway among Ojo Alaba, Volks and trade truthful bus forestall.
The commissioned undertaking Ira-Muwo Bridge with a period of 450 metres and 11 metres in width is redefining in terms of answer it brings to the congestion and gridlock inside the residential and commercial axis.
While highlighting the challenges encountered inside the route of construction, the Special Adviser stated that the peculiarity of the swampy terrain to the lagoon made provision of alternative routes truly tough, “for this reason it became pretty a venture to control vehicular and pedestrian site visitors for the duration of the important degrees".
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