Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has said the perennial gridlocks in Apapa area which had spread to other parts of Lagos would soon be a thing of the past.

Its Head of Operation in Lagos, Olalekan Morakinyo said traffic lock down was as a result of influx of tankers to Apapa ports.

Morakinyo said the situation was compounded by the ongoing rehabilitation of roads in Apapa area, saying the gridlocks would soon be over when the roads were completed.

According to him, many tankers came to Apapa loading bay without schedule, thus causing the gridlock, saying it begins from lkorodu road and the Western Avenue axis to Ijora.

Morakinyo said as soon as the road was completed all the corridors within the axis would experience free flow of traffic.

He urged motorists to be patient and obey traffic officials to ease traffic within the short period of the road rehabilitation.

Stakeholders, comprising traffic authorities, transport unions and port users, gave the trucks and tankers parking indiscriminately forty-eight hours to vacate Lagos roads.

Similarly, the Lagos State Government also asked trailers to keep away from Lagos roads until the resolution of the traffic logjam.