Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE) has again stressed needs for truck drivers to terminate their involvement in indiscriminate parking at Goro Market in Ijako area on Lagos-Abeokuta expressway.
The agency’s Corps Commander/Chief Executive Officer, Cdr Abdulfatai Olaseni Ogunyemi, said the appealing became much necessary, having noticed the rising rate of traffic crashes and gridlocked along the expressway despite all the public enlightenment campaigns on importance of obeying traffic rules.
He said indiscriminate parking of vehicles on the road blocks visions, movements and thereby endangering the lives of other road users. The impunity has been causing the agency’s operatives an unrest as they worked round the clock, Cdr Ogunyemi, noted.
The Corps Commander, said parking vehicles indiscriminately on both inward and outward of the ever busiest expressway, careless attitude and impatient of certain motorists especially commercial drivers while trying to avoid pothole on the Goro Market turning point were responsible for high level of accidents and traffic snarl on the highway on daily basis. He said this has become major concerns for the agency and other traffic management agencies.
“The traffic congestion on that road especially at the Goro Market turning point is not entirely about poor traffic management but it is as a result of drivers’ carelessness, aggressions, impatient and illegal parking. The highway is wide enough that no vehicle should be distorted just because of a porthole while trying to turn at the turning point if defensive driving and adequate patient is considered.
“The state government is doing its best in ensuring the residents enjoy good road but much of the impediments that worsen the flow of traffic are caused by errant drivers while behind the wheels,” Cdr Ogunyemi, said.
He appealed to all road users – motorists, okada/Marwa riders, even pedestrians to strictly obey traffic rules while making use of the road.
He also cautioned motorists against excessive speed, reckless driving and overloading along the corridor, noting that the agency operatives have been mandated to embark on full enforcement against all road traffic impunities to restore sanity on the highway.
Cdr Ogunyemi further said TRACE would not relent its effort from focusing on strategies that will continuously making highways more safe for the users, noting that the Agency would also not hesitate to prosecute any motorists caught violating traffic rules.
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