Lagos Shuts Down Airport Bridge Over Tanker Fire
The Lagos State Government has closed the Airport Bridge at Toyota on the Oshodi-Isolo expressway over the recent tanker fire that affected the bridge.
The State Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde, in a statement he issued and signed on Sunday, said the closure of the bridge to vehicular movement was to enable the government to conduct structural engineering tests on the bridge.
He stated that alternative routes would be provided for motorists for the duration of the outcome of the tests and the reopening of the bridge to traffic.
He further noted that motorists from Mile 2 to Cele on Apapa-Oshodi Expressway will make use of Aiye and Osolo Way to Asa Afariogun through 7&8 to access International Airport Road, and motorists from Toyota would use the service lanes by Armed Forces Resettlement Centre to BOC Gases on old NAFDAC Headquarters.
According to him; “In the light of this development, the state traffic management officials shall be deployed to the aforementioned corridors to control and manage traffic flow along the axis during the course of the diversions.
“The Lagos State Government is assuring the motoring public that the Airport Bridge shall be opened for use as soon as the tests or requisite intervention makes it safe and secure to do so.”
