Abandoned BRT terminal in Ajah: Commuters groan as gridlock, floods affect traffic flow

By Idris Oukoya

The Commuters plying through Ajah-Badore expressway, Lagos State, have expressed displeasure over incessant gridlocks and uncontrolled flood affecting traffic flow by Jubilee Flyover bridge in Ajah area.

Some of the commuters expressed their displeasures in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Lagos, on Tuesday.

Registering his displeasure with the nature of the road, Mr Rasheed Adisa, a motorist, revealed that  incessant gridlock on the Jubilee bridge, is as a result of indiscriminate packing by BRT buses as well as other commercial buses plying that routes.

“Business activities have been paralysed in the area due to heavy vehicular traffic.  Patronages for motorists and investors in that areas have drastically dropped, since last year when the BRT Terminal was abandoned.

“The heavy rain pour and flooding  through the abandoned BRT lane, have been causing lots of havoc in the environment," he said.

Mr Isaac Amadi, a member of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW),Ajah branch, told our correspondent that the Union had taken several steps to get the attention of government, especially LAMATA, all to no avail.

According to him, the Union has written letter to the government through the office of Lagos Metropolitan Transport Authority (LAMATA) to speed up completion of the abandoned BRT construction lane to reduce traffic in that axis, since the agency is the contractor in charge of the BRT lane construction.

“We appealed to the present government to give adequate attention to the abandoned project by ensuring a speedy completion of the work.

“We are pleading with the Gov. Sanwo-Olu to use his good office to complete the terminal at Ajah by Jubilee bridge side in order to ease the suffering of motorists and boost business activities in that axis, ” he said.

Also, Mr Tayo Razak, a bus driver, implored Governor Sanwo-Olu to make scourge of abandoned projects in the state, a thing of the past, while ensuring that all projects were completed in record time.

He disclosed that more of what should come to him as profits have gone to mechanic and panel beaters due to incessant damage.

He also blamed the traffic gridlock on the Jubilee bridge was due to poor packing space for the BRT Buses.


“BRT and commercial Buses now uses Ajah expressway to pick and disembark passengers, thereby causing gridlock on the highway, ” he said.

 Some of the affected streets in the area according to Razak are Thomas Estate link road, Badore road, Langbasa road, NEPA road by the bridge side, amongst others.

Credit : NAN


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