nwafuluozoh:
Why didn’t Jonathan provide the traffic lights? Is he not the president and from the South South? We have not witnessed any development since the inception of this administration. Buhari will give PH traffic lights so let’s vote him.

. This my post vex people wella o. You all should calm down. I was only trying my hands on the blame GEJ for every Governor's failure syndrome. The number of 'insults' I got shows there is still hope for Nigeria and that only very few are deceived by the fake change slogan.
GEJ till 2019.

talktimi:
The traffic lights in ph are regularly put out of commission (destroyed) by winch people because it reduces the choppings of traffic control officers eg police who would have easily arrested you on a trumped-up charge.

Those who are saying the lights were switched off because of the amount of vehicles in ph are beyond daft.

No mind them. How many vehicles dey here?

dein77:


Dear, we don't have a working system. Period.

Are there more vehicles in PH than there are in London?

We just don't want ro change!

It is simply practical. Turn it on for a day and the entire city is locked down.

rodbel:


You cant remember the last time the Governor stepped foot in the Brick house How would you know that Uncle? + You're right about Traffic lights working when Odili was there but were the roads as good as they were now? I'll choose a better road and traffic warden any day over a bad road with traffic lights. #myopinion. Nonetheless the state govt should kindly look into this as a matter of urgency.

I agree. Traffic lights never work with bad roads. However, there is so much impunity displayed by drivers of cabs and tricycles which even traffic lights cannot handle. Traffic lights in itself won't solve this issue. A hard stance on traffic violations should be taken. The incoming government should clearly have a plan to tackle traffic management as I believe Amaechi has failed in that regards.

During the odili government there were traffic lights but in all honesty some If not most of them were still causing traffic jams and coupled by nigerians impatience accidents were still happening. For example d traffic light at waja. Imagine being on a red light for close to 3mins and green for only 10 seconds. Dat traffic light caused a lot of hold up before it was switched off. And lets not forget the fact that no matter wat good you do for some nigerians, they still use their hand to spoil it. Vandalism

VIPERVENOM:
During the odili government there were traffic lights but in all honesty some If not most of them were still causing traffic jams and coupled by nigerians impatience accidents were still happening. For example d traffic light at waja. Imagine being on a red light for close to 3mins and green for only 10 seconds. Dat traffic light caused a lot of hold up before it was switched off. And lets not forget the fact that no matter wat good you do for some nigerians, they still use their hand to spoil it. Vandalism

Traffic lights cant work in a city where all roads are filled up with vehicles except it switches in hourly interval. ie green for an hour and red for another hour. The 3 mins interval just cant work in Port Harcourt.

Abagworo:


It is simply practical. Turn it on for a day and the entire city is locked down.

You have a point here but implementing the traffic lights require a holistic approach, not just switching them on because they exist. Have traffic demands been analysed? How's indiscriminate stopping by commercial vehicles at key junctions been handled? How is the use of appropriately designed bus stops being handled?
If you turn them on today, like you said, the city will be locked down. If appropriately implemented, it would go a long way in alleviating the madness in PH roads.

chemali:


I agree. Traffic lights never work with bad roads. However, there is so much impunity displayed by drivers of cabs and tricycles which even traffic lights cannot handle. Traffic lights in itself won't solve this issue. A hard stance on traffic violations should be taken. The incoming government should clearly have a plan to tackle traffic management as I believe Amaechi has failed in that regards.

Na system wey we no get. If we have a working system, everyone will behave tthemselves.

Why do we behave ourselves when we travel to the West? System. Period.

chemali:


I agree. Traffic lights never work with bad roads. However, there is so much impunity displayed by drivers of cabs and tricycles which even traffic lights cannot handle. Traffic lights in itself won't solve this issue. A hard stance on traffic violations should be taken. The incoming government should clearly have a plan to tackle traffic management as I believe Amaechi has failed in that regards.

Amaechi did not fail in traffic management please. Lets be honest. Today in Port Harcourt you are sure of getting to where you are going but in the past one might spend all day driving from Oil Mill to Trans Amadi. The reason for the success is TIMARIV and establishment of parking laws and enforcement by the corps. The Amaechi/Jonathan feud led to Police swooping on TIMARIV corps and banning them from federal roads thereby reducing their earlier success. Touts loyal to GDI are allowed to cause traffic dis order and backed by Police.

chemali:


You have a point here but implementing the traffic lights require a holistic approach, not just switching them on because they exist. Have traffic demands been analysed? How's indiscriminate stopping by commercial vehicles at key junctions been handled? How is the use of appropriately designed bus stops being handled?
If you turn them on today, like you said, the city will be locked down. If appropriately implemented, it would go a long way in alleviating the madness in PH roads.

Our government is serious. Traffic management is one the easiest functions of a modern government.

All you need do is create a working system, coupled with attendant consequences.

I work as a HSE professional, and sometimes I'm deployed to traffic to control. People will mess up a weak system. When they find a tough one, they behave themselves.

The road madness here is too much.

Abagworo:


Amaechi did not fail in traffic management please. Lets be honest. Today in Port Harcourt you are sure of getting to where you are going but in the past one might spend all day driving from Oil Mill to Trans Amadi. The reason for the success is TIMARIV and establishment of parking laws and enforcement by the corps. The Amaechi/Jonathan feud led to Police swooping on TIMARIV corps and banning them from federal roads thereby reducing their earlier success. Touts loyal to GDI are allowed to cause traffic dis order and backed by Police.

I wasn't here Pre-Amaechi though and based on what I learnt, it was worse previously. However, it could be better. Saying Amaechi failed may have been a wrong choice of words but he could do better than what we have now.

chemali:


I wasn't here Pre-Amaechi though and based on what I learnt, it was worse previously. However, it could be better. Saying Amaechi failed may have been a wrong choice of words but he could do better than what we have now.

You're right. During the Peter Odili tenure, there were traffic lights but no traffic officials to complement them. I kicked against the siting of traffic lights in Ojoto by Emenike Street, a cul-de-sac, with the New Mile 1 Hospital facing Ojojo Street.

dein77:


No mind them. How many vehicles dey here?

port Harcourt cars plenty pass new York own ni

talktimi:
port Harcourt cars plenty pass new York own ni

Abeg ask them for me!

An excuse for failure.

o42austino:
their shld be a way to detect underage comments on Nairaland like this poster, is it the duty of FG to provide Streetlight or the State Gov't? Pls use the MB ur mum bought for u wisely.

It should be the responsibility of the United Nations and African Union to provide traffic light in Nigeria so you all should take note

From airport roundabout down to rumuokoro had it street light on when I entered ph lastweek

9jatriot:


You need power to run traffic light, whose responsibility is it to provide power

seriously are you kidding me? so these states Enugu and Akwaibom state are situated in London?

jmaine:
OP, don't worry about Amaechi glaring absence and inactivity.

Just vote change . . .

Should worry about his discomfort n then vote change ..
War an irony

nwafuluozoh:
Why didn’t Jonathan provide the traffic lights? Is he not the president and from the South South? We have not witnessed any development since the inception of this administration. Buhari will give PH traffic lights so let’s vote him.

Johnathan, is rivers state governor less
Y do ppl reason like this? These days ppl don't even talk about d govs, but Johnathan, so that man should kill himself cos some govs r not working
Go to a state like akwa Ibom, witness transformation, is it Johnathan that came down to do it?
Ppl hanfg d silly deficiencies of govs on the president.
It's not a nyc way of reasoning.

9jatriot:


You need power to run traffic light, whose responsibility is it to provide power

who provides all the power used to power street lights during the corrupt peter odili era?

cooltone:
There are traffic lights everywhere in Portharcourt but they had to be put off as they created more chaotic traffic situation than solutions. Use of traffic wardens proved to be more effective in this town. So OP take your propaganda to the cleaners

you are lying and you know it! If not take a pic of any traffic light to see in port harcourt and post here. Working or not.

lyntiffany:
seriously are you kidding me? so these states Enugu and Akwaibom state are situated in London?

Those places have few cars and the roads are scanty. Sometimes while driving in Enugu or Uyo I have my car as the only car waiting for the traffic light turn green.

Symphony007:
who provides all the power used to power street lights during the corrupt peter odili era?

Someone has since suggested the use of solar panel which I have consented to, however, if you are comparing with Odili era, power situation was better then than now.

lyntiffany:
seriously are you kidding me? so these states Enugu and Akwaibom state are situated in London?

Ok I don hear. Oya Amaechi over to you come and respond to these your people ya sef, I am not your spokes man.

Abagworo:


Those places have few cars and the roads are scanty. Sometimes while driving in Enugu or Uyo I have my car as the only car waiting for the traffic light turn green.

ok thanks for the info I appreciate.

I cant believe some grown azz adults are saying ph will be in lockdown if traffic lights are utilized abi no be the same ph wey I dey drive round ? See me see nonsense excuses for incompetence

chemali:
It's a shame though that there is no working traffic light in Rivers. Traffic management is a mess here.

Brother it won't work here in ph. I prefer timariv and traffic warderns 2 traffic light. When it was here nko hw many of us obayed d traffic light. We need 2 change b4 accusing our leaders

ikennaoma:

Brother it won't work here in ph. I prefer timariv and traffic warderns 2 traffic light. When it was here nko hw many of us obayed d traffic light. We need 2 change b4 accusing our leaders

Why won't it work here in PH? Are the humans here less human than those in other states where it has worked?

All we need is a serious system. Once we get that, everyone complies. Period.

ikennaoma:

Brother it won't work here in ph. I prefer timariv and traffic warderns 2 traffic light. When it was here nko hw many of us obayed d traffic light. We need 2 change b4 accusing our leaders

It didn't start to work all of a sudden in Lagos. There was enforcement. However, from what I perceive, TIMARIV/Police refrain from arresting the consistent culprits which are the commercial transport operators and focus on private individuals. Also, those who blow sirens or go around with escorts flout the rules. If there is enforcement across board, the traffic light would work.

chemali:


I agree. Traffic lights never work with bad roads. However, there is so much impunity displayed by drivers of cabs and tricycles which even traffic lights cannot handle. Traffic lights in itself won't solve this issue. A hard stance on traffic violations should be taken. The incoming government should clearly have a plan to tackle traffic management as I believe Amaechi has failed in that regards.

TIMARIV was a good initiative but recruiting thugs into the fold was wrong. TIMARIV should make use of enlightened folks in discharging their duties.

talktimi:
I cant believe some grown azz adults are saying ph will be in lockdown if traffic lights are utilized abi no be the same ph wey I dey drive round ? See me see nonsense excuses for incompetence

You have repeated this point 3 times already..Its enough.

The context of that statement is that Cars are more in number relative to roads in PH, so the traffic lights would therefore be more lf a nuisance than a welcome relief.

The situation as it is now in PH makes traffic lights totally unnecessary..But it would change when the govt build the required flyovers and overpasses.