FOR those living on the Lagos – Ibadan Expressway axis, these are not the best of times. Going and coming on that road since work began on the Kara bridge – Berger portion on September 2 has been hell. Be it in the morning, afternoon or night, movement is not smooth. The traffic is always crawling. When you think you have left home early to beat the traffic (was that not what they advised us to do?), you will still run into it one way or the other.
What is confounding is that you will not know the cause of the problem. On Monday, the traffic was so bad that those who took the untarred road that bursts out at the OPIC intersection were swearing under their breath. Those on the express did not fare better. If Julius Berger had worked on the untarred road as an alternative route, it would have been in good condition whether it rains or not.
It was in a terrible condition because of the rain which fell at the weekend. It was clogged as motorists tried to beat the traffic on the express. Everywhere was jammed as motorists sought the way out. From the look of things, there may be no way out until Julius Berger completes the job. And that is going to take 120 days. Hmm! We are in for it.
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