The General Manager, Lagos State Public Works Corporation (LSPWC), Mr. Olufemi Daramola, has reiterated the corporation’s commitment to rehabilitate all the bad roads in the state.
In a statement by the Office of the General Manager, the agency also disclosed that it had rehabilited some roads in the state to ease movement of people and good.
While emphasising the importance of the completed roads to commuters and economic activities of the affected areas, the general manager said that good road infrastructure was the major focus of the T.H.E.M.E.S development agenda for a “Greater Lagos.
According to him, “The rehabilitated roads, which are situated at different strategic parts of the State, include Aina Obembe Street in Alimosho LGA; Ligali Ayorinde Road and Bankole Cardoso in Eti-Osa LGA; Charity Road by Old Abeokuta intersection in Ifako-Ijaye LGA; Odozie Street, Limson Road, Muiz Banire and Irewole Streets in Ikeja LGA and Balogun Street in Somolu LGA.
“The Corporation has also fixed some roads regarded as alternative routes for vehicular traffic due to the ongoing rehabilitation of Third Mainland Bridge (TMB). Some of these roads are Jibowu Bus Stop, Herbert Macaulay Road, Herbert Macaulay Junction and Oyingbo-Adekunle Road in Lagos Mainland LGA; Cele-Okota Road in Oshodi-Isolo LGA, and Abebe and Eric Moore Roads in Surulere LGA”, he added.
He explained further that the rehabilitation of the failed section of Itire-Lawanson in Surulere LGA with paving stones has been completed while another aspect of routine maintenance on the road is receiving due attention, adding that the rehabilitation of Tolu and Baale streets at Ajeromi-Ifelodun are almost completed.
Daramola maintained that 10 sectional routine maintenance works were also done in different parts of the state, while palliative works were carried out on nine roads to provide relative comfort until a total reconstruction will be done.
“Roads in this category are Abiodun Jagun in Ikeja; Ikoyi Road in Eti-Osa LGA; Adebowale and Oremeta Streets in Ikeja; Sunmola and Oriola Streets in Kosofe LGA; Alternative routes to Third Mainland Bridge, Apapa Road, Otto-Iddo, Yaba Road in Lagos Mainland and Funsho Williams Avenue in Surulere LGA”, he declared.