Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has said that endeavors are being made to put bars on some Lagos extensions to forestall unpredictable stopping of tankers and explained vehicles.
Mr Hyginus Omeje, the FRSC Lagos State Sector Commander, made this known in a meeting with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Monday.
Omeje said that a council had been initiated to investigate how proprietors of trucks and tankers could do their business without climbing spans in the state.
"We are dealing with how truck drivers can utilize the ground as opposed to climbing spans in Lagos State to avoid mishaps and gridlock.
"It has been proposed by the government that we can bar the scaffolds to counteract mishaps and aimless stopping of trucks and tankers on the extensions,'' he said.
As indicated by him, putting bars on the scaffolds will diminish gridlock and accidents including autos and verbalized vehicles particularly the over-matured ones.
The FRSC supervisor said that huge numbers of the tankers and trucks had been out and about for over 25 years, saying that a portion of the vehicles couldn't withstand the heap set on them.
"A large number of them separation over the scaffolds and caused automobile overload.
''Numerous truck and tanker drivers purposely stop on the extensions on their approach to Apapa Port and deter vehicular development. Every one of these demonstrations will end soon.
"We are more worried about the threat of gridlock on streets prompting Apapa Port.
"The state government introduced the team to guarantee that the trucks are streamlined to permit free stream of movement along the passage,'' Omeje said.
He said that the gridlock made by trucks and explained vehicles on spans in Lagos were hazardous and had harming impacts.
"We are perched on a barrel of black powder on the grounds that the extensions are powerless as tankers, trucks and enunciated vehicles are stopped on them.
"At the point when these vehicles are stationary on the scaffolds for quite a while, they have negative effect, including decay, connect weakness, harm or even fall.
"The Ijora, Eko, Carter and Third Mainland spans were costly activities that cost gigantic funding to execute,'' Omeje said.
The state government had ordered all proprietors of explained trucks coming into Lagos to acquire the Ministry of Transportation's Road Worthiness Certificate at any of the assigned focuses inside 30 days.
The final proposal on street value authentication took after the ongoing awful tanker blast on Otedola Bridge internal Ojodu Berger along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
Fuel tanker drivers were likewise coordinated to utilize assigned trailer courses – Apapa-Oworonshoki Expressway through Ogudu to Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
