Lagos: Work on Agege Pen Cinema bridge to be completed by February, 2021- Gov. Sanwo-Olu

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By Francis Ogwo

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has assured residents that the Agege Pen-Cinema overhead Bridge currently under construction will fully open to vehicular movement on February 2021.

Sanwo-Olu said at that the project is presently at 90 percent completion, adding that all civil works had already been completed on the bridge which ascends from Oba Ogunji Road and drops at the Oke Koto axis of Agege. The bridge also opens to the old Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway through Abule Egba.

The Governor said the road project would eliminate the discomfort currently being experienced by motorists plying Agege-Abule Egba.

Sanwo-Olu, had in the company of his Deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, and members of the State’s cabinet, embarked on an unscheduled inspection of the 1.7 kilometer-long bridge project site on Wednesday, assessed the level of work done so far.

The Governor expressed satisfaction at the quality of work done, assuring that the bridge would be fully opened for public use next February noting that the only work left on the bridge was turning intersection improvements at the descending part of the bridge and signalisation for ease of traffic movement.

Sanwo-Olu said, “We have just finished an inspection and a walkthrough of the Agege Pen-Cinema Bridge. The level of completion of the project is around 90 percent. All the major brickwork has been done and we are left with two major deliverables, which include cleaning up the intersection and signalisation.

“There is four synchronised signalisation we are expecting to have and each must work together with the other. We are expecting that all these will be done early next year. This is in fulfillment of the promise we made that we will complete all projects abandoned. We are giving the contractor handling this project a maximum of eight weeks to attend to little snags in the project.

“By the second week in January, vehicles can move on the bridge but we may need additional four weeks to complete the signalisation, road painting, and demarcation. We are looking forward to fully hand over this project sometime in February next year.”

Speaking further, the governor added that the State Government had started to consider other complementary road construction to be done on the axis to further improve traffic for commuters in the area while stressing that the state was in talks with the Federal Road Maintainance Agency (FERMA) to take on adjoining arterial roads, with the objective to ease the flow of traffic from the bridge down to other areas.

Recall that the current administration embarked on the completion of the bridge initiated by former, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, which according to Sanwo-Olu is due to its strategic importance to easing gridlock and improving economic activities in Agege and adjoining communities in the state.

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