The Lagos State Government says it has shut down the Airport Bridge at Toyota Bus Stop on the Oshodi-Isolo Expressway following a a tanker fire that impacted on the bridge recently.
Dr. Frederic Oladeinde, Commissioner for Transportation in the state, made the announcement in a statement Sunday, explaining that the closure of the bridge to vehicles was to enable the government to conduct structural engineering tests on the bridge.
Oladeinde said that alternative routes had been created for motorists pending the outcome of the tests and the reopening of the bridge to traffic.
Under the new arrangement by the government, motorists from Mile 2 to Cele on Apapa-Oshodi Expressway will make use of Aiye and Osolo Way to Asa Afariogun through 7&8 to access International Airport Road.
He said that motorists from Toyota would use the service lanes by Armed Forces Resettlement Centre to BOC Gases on old NAFDAC Headquarters.
“In the light of this development, the state traffic management officials shall be deployed to the aforementioned corridors to control and manage traffic flow along the axis during the course of the diversions.
“The Lagos State Government is assuring the motoring public that the Airport Bridge shall be opened for use as soon as the tests or requisite intervention makes it safe and secure to do so,” he added.
The incidence of fire outbreaks from petroleum tankers has become a common occurrence in Nigeria, which depends on road transportation to move petroleum products from depots to retail outlets.
