Traffic expert criticises Lagos governor's Light Up Project

He urged Lagos state government to focus on “decongesting, and improving the flow of traffic”,The Nation reports.

“Short of improving security and making motorists more aware of the road ahead, street lights are of no direct impact, and could not be categorised as critical road infrastructure.

Government should work on providing infrastructures such as appropriate road markings, and road signages, such as speed limit signs, stop signs, No U turn signs, no overtaking and other signs that make the roads more friendly.

It would be shocking to note that except from Lekki-Epe corridor and at Alausa, the seat of the government, there is not a single road sign on Lagos roads.

Motorists don’t know the approved speed limit on which type of roads and so you find our hospitals are usually filled with accident casualties.”

Adenusi also had something about the constant repainting of road kerbs, adding that this does not affect traffic or road safety.

“These irregular painting of our kerbs are a waste of efforts, waste of labour, and a sheer waste of scarce resources. In developed societies, you see people regularly washing these paints weekly, so they remain very bright, but here once the kerbs or medians are painted, they are forgotten and become caked with dust, which remains until somebody else just remembers it is time again to award the painting contract.”