'We lose $7.5M to traffic daily' - state commissioner reveals

Traffic causes Lagos state to lose a lot of money, daily.

According to the Commissioner of Transport, Mr

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Speaking at the maiden edition of the Lagos Traffic Radio Lecture Series, themed: “Migrating Workforce: The Challenges of Mass Transportation’’, Mobereola also highlighted the cause of this traffic.

He said traffic is caused by uneven urban growth and development, ill equipped transport infrastructure, limited alternatives to vehicular transportation, and lack of high capacity vehicles.

“All of these lead to chronic traffic congestion and this contribute to noise and air pollution in Lagos,’’ he added.

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The commissioner also spoke about a solution, involving land use.

"We identified all the areas where the Lagos State plans to develop either residential, commercial, social activities that that are going to generate trips or traffic.

We have come to realise that if we don’t plan with the land use we are just going to be shooting ourselves in the foot.

That has given us opportunity to come up with a strategic transport master plan for Lagos,’’ he said.

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