Lagos State government has completed and commissioned 172 roads translating to 177.93 km as it increased the pace of work on 253 other projects, totalling 298.22 kilometres of roads, 2.510 km of bridge and 3.13km that are currently ongoing in different parts of the state.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Infrastructure, Engr. Olufemi Daramola, disclosed this at the ongoing ministerial press briefing to mark the first year of second term of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in Lagos.
Expressing delight at some of the infrastructural projects underway in Lagos, he said this reflects the administration’s commitment to progress and development.
He listed two of the transformative projects underway to include the 3.89km Ojota – Opebi Link Bridge and Approach Roads, which provide a direct route between Opebi, Mende, Maryland, and Ojota, and the Abiola-Onijemo link road with bridge, a 643m length of road and 135m length of the bridge section that traverses a swampy terrain to serve as a strategic link from College Road, through Ajayi Street, Ogba to Aruna/Obawole/Iju-Ishaga in Ifako-Ijaiye.
He said: “Infrastructural development remains a critical development vehicle for realising the Babajide Sanwo-Olu led administration’s T.H.E.M.E.S+ agenda and the greater Lagos vision of Africa’s model smart city, hence the delivery of new road projects, massive upgrading and rehabilitation of existing roads and construction of new bridges.”
He listed other ongoing roads to include Babafemi Dada with Bridge-Yinka Folarin-Jamiu Lawal-Shalom Academy Road Network in Alimosho Local Council, a 1.57Km semi-rigid pavement road with 250m long Deck on Pile (DOP) that replaces the former wooden bridge (Idowu Egba Bridge), which will provide a shorter route for motorists connecting LASU-IBA Road and upgrading of Old Ojo road, Amuwo Odofin into a dual carriageway.
