Residents stranded for hours as Lagos blocks Isolo bridge for repairs

By Henry Ojelu, LAGOS

Residents of Ikotun, Ejigbo, Isheri, Bucknor, and Jakande areas of Lagos were stranded for implicit 5 hours connected Tuesday greeting pursuing the full closure of the Isolo Bridge for exigency repair works.

The unexpected closure caused terrible postulation congestion crossed adjoining routes, leaving thousands of commuters trekking agelong distances to their workplaces.

Vehicular question from Jakande towards Isolo was wholly halted, portion the other lane from Isolo to Jakande was besides blocked aft respective motorists driving against postulation worsened the gridlock.

As of 8:00 a.m., lone a fistful of postulation officers were seen controlling the situation, portion aggravated residents and motorists expressed vexation implicit what they described arsenic mediocre postulation absorption by authorities authorities.

One of the operation workers connected tract told Vanguard that the squad had initially planned to execute the span repair overnight but were delayed erstwhile their instrumentality broke down.

“We wanted to bash the repair enactment astatine night, but our instrumentality developed a fault,” the idiosyncratic explained. “We lone managed to hole it this morning, and since the materials for the occupation had already been prepared, we had to proceed immediately. If we delay, the materials volition beryllium damaged.”

Efforts by stranded commuters to transportation the engineers to unfastened 1 lane for question were rebuffed. A tract technologist reportedly insisted that the recently laid asphalt would necessitate astatine slightest 3 hours to adust earlier vehicles could pass.

Our analogous observed that respective commuters trekking done the blocked conception rained curses connected the workers arsenic tempers flared successful the scorching greeting sun.

However, alleviation came aboriginal successful the greeting erstwhile a squad of constabulary officers from the Idimu Division arrived and persuaded the operation unit to make a azygous lane connected the span to easiness the gridlock.

As astatine the clip of filing this report, postulation had begun to determination dilatory crossed the Isolo Bridge, though respective adjoining roads remained congested.

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