Following a recent tanker fire that affected Airport Bridge at Toyota on the Oshodi-Isolo Expressway, the Lagos State Government has closed down the bridge for assessment.
This was contained in a statement on Sunday, signed by the state Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde.
According to him, vehicular movement was restricted from the bridge in order for the government to conduct structural engineering tests on the bridge.
Oladeinde, however, started that alternative routes had been created for motorists pending the outcome of the tests and the reopening of the bridge to traffic.
Disclosing the alternative routes, Oledeinde said motorists from Mile 2 to Cele on Apapa-Oshodi Expressway will make use of Aiye and Osolo Way to Asa Afariogun through 7&8 to access International Airport Road.
While motorists from Toyota would use the service lanes by Armed Forces Resettlement Centre to BOC Gases on old NAFDAC Headquarters.
He added that, “In the light of this development, the state traffic management officials shall be deployed to the aforementioned corridors to control and manage traffic flow along the axis during the course of the diversions.
“The Lagos State Government is assuring the motoring public that the Airport Bridge shall be opened for use as soon as the tests or requisite intervention makes it safe and secure to do so.”