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Sanwo-Olu plans to restrict trucks’ movement to ease traffic in Lagos

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Oloruntimilehin Ayomide
The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said that he plans to restrict movement of trucks in the city during the day, to subside traffic on the roads.
At the Lagos House Ikeja, on Monday, Sanwo-Olu made the revelation when a team from the Nigerian Breweries Plc pays him a visit.
However, he clarified that the government had been pushing the trailers off the whole corridor of Iganmu area to ensure that the journey towards Apapa remained free.
“New policies are going to come out in the coming days on some regulations around movement of heavy duty trucks just so that we can manage what time of the day they all get to come in on the roads.
“We cannot begin to imagine 30 to 50 trucks competing during work hours, and so we need to plan out the logistics around it, what time of the day they need to move.
“It is more around how do we resolve traffic movement and traffic flow in all of the places and some very hard decisions will be taken.
“The Issue is not building more roads, the issue is managing the ones that we currently have, and all of us using them efficiently and effectively,” he said.
Sanwo-Olu further stated that, “The things that don’t need to move during daytime, we can restrict them to night movement, so that they can free up traffic all around the place.”

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