There will be partial restriction of movement on Ikorodu Road to enable, Lagos State Government replace the dilapidated and disused steel pedestrian bridge at Fadeyi Bus Stop with a new footbridge.

The government says to effect the removal of the bridge, the main carriage lanes of the Ikorodu Road will be closed to traffic for two nights on Saturday, between eleven in the evening and six in the morning, and on Sunday between eleven in the evening and four in the morning, while the service lanes will be open to traffic.

According to the government, all traffic both inward Lagos and outward Ojota would be diverted to the service lanes.

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works and Infrastructure, Olujimi Hotonu said the disused pedestrian bridge would be pulled down to give way for a new one worthy of the status of the State.

Hotonu said this was part of government’s continuous drive to protect the lives of pedestrians on the highway.

While soliciting for the cooperation and support of all road users especially motorists plying the corridor to observe all the precaution signs on the road, he said government had put in place effective traffic management strategies to manage the traffic during the period of closure.

Hotonu said the notice of partial restriction of the road became expedient to enlighten motorists and other road users to utilise alternative routes to avoid delay as well as obey traffic officers deployed on the road to ease movement.

While regretting the inconveniences the partial restriction would cause, he appealed for caution, saying the ultimate goal of the plan was to safeguard lives and improve traffic along the corridor.