eledalo: I've noticed this on Ikorodu road, Lagos and lately on Funsho Williams Ave in Surulere.
Sometimes Nigerians blame leadership for their problems, but many times, we cause our own problems.

Imagine if someone is hit by a car while running across the road as these people are doing?
1. The driver of the vehicle gets into unnecessary trouble.
2. The pedestrian dies an untimely death!
3. The incident causes unnecessary gridlock for other road users.

Why? Someone wants to gain a few minutes crossing the road.
We don't need FRSC, LASTMA, Lagos Govt or FG to tell us to use pedestrian bridges where they exist.

dgitrader: Even a roadsafety official is amoung the culprits in the picture.
But this isnt just a pedestran issue, poor or inadiquate town planning can be blammed for this also. Why should there be several bus-stops and residences along such a wide and busy highway?
The worst of this type of senerio is along the lagos-abeokuta expressroad, just before iyanapaja, its a breathtaking 40meters death race! For man, woman, young and old.

djjoad: Nice write up..good observation...but i feel the topic is somehow inappropriate..
Maybe cos of the Nigerian mentality...i was expecting to see large, deep potholes...
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pasat oti: no road sefty man i dey c 4dat pic? [color=#000099][/color]

touch_me_hard:

If they construct a pedestrian bridge there, will you use it? Somebody is here observing that people stubbornly refuse to use available pedestrian bridges, and here you are asking for more.

ammyluv2002: I totally agree with you @ poster, a lot of people have lost their lives already on that road even last frIday around 11Pm @ car wash junction one babe was hit by a car & she died instantly (so I heard sha) most people don't uSe the bridge including me maybe is laziness or something but is very risky, even the drivers are not helping matters plus the road safety guys. I'm always scared whenever I'm crossing that road yet I do it daily.

yuzedo: By the way, i drive a big jeep! Feel free to PM me, ladies...

Chasitty001: I can't see over-head bridges around that spot. I guess that explains why people have to cross.

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hafeesa:

Seriously? what does that have to do with the post? Smh

dgitrader: Even a roadsafety official is amoung the culprits in the picture.
But this isnt just a pedestran issue, poor or inadiquate town planning can be blammed for this also. Why should there be several bus-stops and residences along such a wide and busy highway?
The worst of this type of senerio is along the lagos-abeokuta expressroad, just before iyanapaja, its a breathtaking 40meters death race! For man, woman, young and old.

freechat: I remember when the pedestrian bridges were not in place, may people reckoned, and rightly so, that government was insensitive to the plight of the ordinary people. Now that these bridges have been put in place, it is a shame that pedestrians have failed to take advantage of them. The one near Mopol bus-stop Nyanya, has only been patronized by sport people, while the one at Maraba market has been populated largely by beggars and petty traders, since pedestrians have refused to use them. What a shame!

khanivorous:


I almost got hit by a vehicle at that mopol junction few years back.. Since then I stop at the pedestrian bridge and stroll...how I survived that day is a miracle

yuzedo: By the way, i drive a big jeep! Feel free to PM me, ladies...

hafeesa:

Seriously? what does that have to do with the post? Smh

olajide_07: This is a very serious issue * in my words the government is looking for how to reduce the population of Nigerian's, by purposely building pedestrian bridges at miles from where people actually cross the roads* I don't know what the intent is but its quite insane in abuja - for example people cross the roads at area 3 junction, and area 1 roundabout in abuja (Garki), but the government decided to construct and build a pedestrian bridge in the middle of nowhere, between area 1 and area 3, and we know our people they hate doing walking exercise, so they just alight from a commuter bus turn around the bus, and gbam! they hit the express, now who do we blame the architects and surveyors that chose the location or government that don't consider the actual points people cross or people themselves that are lawless, what a situation a tri-parte level of total decadence

djjoad: Nice write up..good observation...but i feel the topic is somehow inappropriate..
Maybe cos of the Nigerian mentality...i was expecting to see large, deep potholes...
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oloriooko: I waited long to see where i could post this topic but found out that there was no section for traffic situations in this country and i think Seun should do something about it cos i do not know why we have Autos and Car talk sections which to me are very similar.

Now to my post: i noticed the impunity with which commuters along the Airport road Abuja put their lives at great risk by abandoning the pedestrian bridges newly built for them rather they run across the dangerous wide road, sit on the road dividers just to cross the road with the bridges very close to them, some even cross the roads right under the bridges.

funny enough, we have the road safety spots at the city gate and lugbe but they seem not to be concerned about what these people do cos they even stand by the road while commuters run across the road at lugbe.


commuters running across the expressway



commuters sitting on road dividers waiting to cross the expressway