Third Mainland Bridge To Be Temporarily Shut For Four Days – Lagos Govt • Channels Television

 

The Lagos State Government has announced that the Third Mainland Bridge will be temporarily shut for four days.

This was disclosed in a statement signed on Sunday by the Lagos State Deputy Director, Public Affairs Ministry Of Works and Infrastructure, Sina Thorpe.

The shut down will start from midnight of August 23 to midnight of August 26, 2018. It is to allow investigative Maintenance Test to be carried out on the Bridge.

The State’s Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Mr Ade Akinsanya said the decision was taken after due consultation with the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing.

According to him, the four-day closure will enable the contractors to assess the true state of the bridge after works would commence on the bridge by the end of the year or early in 2019.

“The Third Mainland Bridge which was opened about 30 years ago by the then military government has had haphazard maintenance and repairs in the past which the present Federal Government is…