Traffic Issues In Lagos. What Can Be Done?

well d trfik problem in lagos is somtin i don't even want to talk about.imagin trafik into d island in d morning @ about 7am and d same tin around 5pm.
i  once stayed in trafik between eko hotel and bonny camp (both in VI) from 5pm till around 8pm A TRIP OF ABOUT 5 MINS

the metro scheme would be a lovely one but lagos is so conjested that for it to work,we would av to demolish so many houses.
or what do u think?>

Nice joke,  but do you know the funny thing? Lagosians will afford to pay that and how will the government enforce this?,some sort of techie meter in each cars?
In lagos of today, having a car is something of status/class, and they won't give that up easily.
Na wa o.
I strongly believe we can profer a workable solution in this thread - right here on Nairaland!!

@Dis Guy,
Dont get me wrong, I din't say it is not workable. Anything is possible. Especially with the tracker and monitoring device you just explained. i think RFIDs can do this if i'm right

I wont discourage the use of Lagbus, it is also done in London, what the government need to do is to purchase more buses and at the same time make stops on each 4minutes drive.  It shouldn't be that a bus will move from 7up straight to Obalende, that is absurd, I think what should be done is to give buses different routes and they should number them take for instance bus 177 should be taking the route of Ikeja to Maryland, and bus 202 from Ojota to Ogba and so on.
Apart from this, the government need to ask ever owners of a car to be doing MOT every 3months, MOT is meant for checking the cars that are still okay to be used on our road, the ones that are not good should be taken away and sold to manufacturer who will repair it and the owner will be able to pay instalmentally.
Moreover the government should quickly implement the use of Railway, they need to give contract on constructing both underground and overhead railway lines. This will equally reduce the rate of traffic in this congested area.
Without a good plan, I am assuring you that Lagos will be worse than the unnoticeable state in America.

we need a subway system, good roads, traffic lights ( good ones ),  and so on

if i were governor i would try hiking prices of rates to live in lagos, this would give incentives for people to go to other cities. use that money, provide a more reliable transportation system.expand the city, and start planing.

very funny some suggestions u get to hear on this site.lol;
dnt u think lagos will now be exclusively for the rich.some people will pay a fortune to stay in lagos,and therefore some people will work for this people that are in lagos.back to the topic;
somebody was even saying lamata has tried,wot did they do hmm!
digging up roads that were never enough in the first place cannot be a solution.people now avoid ikorodu road like a plague because of the hold-ups u are sure to encounter there,hw can u dig up a road that is not ok,i felt like crying for road users in lagos,all in the name of brt.the number of accidents this digging has caused should be left unsaid(eni kon lo mo).
people are suggesting taxing the people that use the road as if we don't pay multiple taxes in the first place.
we have abundant oil revenues in this country that if we start building bridges  in every state for the next couple of year,there will be no drain on our resources.
the helplessness of this is that in this same holdup,u get robbed,i know people that have been robbed at least 4 times.a friend of mine had to fly out of the country to treat his gunshot wounds that he sustained.
we should declare a state of emergency with respect to our roads.then find solutions to the problem.
 

have oyu noticed that theres no road that is smooth for 25metres in lagos,thats my reasoning when i said a state of emergency should be declared.
area boys can be taken care of easily because once govt is against it,theres no way they will survive.bt the lagos govt condones them,the main reason that the are powerful.

Talkin bout traffic in lag , kind of hard. There's as much stress on the pedestrian as well as the driver - much less on the passengers. The roads are terrible, the road marshalls are something else. Sometimes they really do help with the traffic - both many a time, they r just out there 4 their own selfish interests, exploiting the common man with their very cheap uniform.
Lagos na hot cake. Anyone in lagos must be prepared for the toughest of locomotion. The other day I went late for an appointment in VI from festac after leavin bout 2hours 30mins earlier.
My conclusion: Lagos na jungle, only animals fit dey this kind mad place dey happy.