Kamoru Olaore
When in early January 2021, a petrol tanker loaded with fuel crashed at Toyota Bus Stop, on the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, and burst into flames, damaged the bridge that leads to Murtala Muhammed International Airport, motorists and other road users never envisaged that it would, for months, disrupt their journeys to and from the airport and other destinations.
The damage was so intense that the Federal Government suspended usage of the bridge, which was in the right direction.
Due to the fact that the road leads to the airport and that the bridge is the only access to the airport for those living at Isolo and environs, Lagosians never gave it a thought that repair would take such a long time.
The assumption was that the plight of the users, especially those travelling by air, would be considered and would therefore influence immediate repairs of the bridge.
Access to the bridge linking International Airport road cordoned off. PHOTO:FEMI ADEBESIN-KUTI
No sooner was…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
