The company managing the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Electronic-Call-Up system, the Trucks Transit Parks (TTP), has blamed the re-emergence of traffic chaos along the Apapa-Oshodi express road on failure of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) to enforce a ‘No parking order on the road.’
Recall that port users and residents living around the Mile 2 area of Lagos have lamented the perennial taking over of the road by petroleum tankers and other articulated vehicles which virtually turned the highway into a parking lot.
Checks revealed that the petroleum tankers can be seen lined along the Mile 2 axis of the Apapa-Oshodi express way, waiting to get into the Tin-Can Island Port to lift petroleum product from some of the many Tank Farms located around the port.
When the media sought clarifications from the Managing Director of the TTP, Jama Onwubuariri on why articulated vehicles have taken over the Apapa-Oshodi express road, he explained that LASTMA is supposed to enforce a no parking order on that road.
“LASTMA is supposed to enforce a no parking order on that road, but they haven’t done that,” the TTP boss told Nigerian Tribune.
Motorists have continued to lament over the traffic chaos that has persisted along the Apapa-Oshodi expressway which leads to the Tin-Can Island Port in Lagos.
The traffic snarl which sometimes stretches from the Kirikiri to second Rainbow axis of the road, has crippled vehicular movement along the road, thereby forcing many to abandon the road for alternative access roads to the port.
