Ambode to build ‘additional pedestrian bridge’ in Ojota

Following the heavy toll the usage of the single pedestrian bridge at Ojota bus stop on Ikorodu road was having on Lagosians, the state government has declared its intention to construct an additional foot bridge to complement the existing one.

Steve Ayorinde, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy made this known in a statement released on Thursday.

The commissioner said the decision arose from the need to drastically reduce the long time being currently spent on the queue by people using the bridge.

He stated that the construction of an additional bridge has become extremely imperative after the newly erected New Jersey Wall on the median of the expressway ‘has effectively curtailed indiscriminate dropping and picking of passengers along the highway as well as dangerous crossing of the road on foot by commuters’.

Ayorinde further noted that the wall is meant to ‘reduce fatalities on the part of commuters crossing the highway and the traffic gridlock caused by commercial buses and motorcycles engaging in indiscriminate dropping and picking of passengers’.

The commissioner however, urged commuters to be patient with government until the new pedestrian bridge is constructed, noting that the project is expected to be delivered within three months.

He added that the new bridge will accommodate the special needs of the physically challenged, for their ease of movement.

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