pro01: One reason why I don't like to drive always in Lagos during working hours is because of the difficulty of finding parking space at certain destinations - and the attendant fear of the LASTMA goons towing away one's car. That's why I found Okadas very convenient for movements to certain areas during working hours (e.g. Allen Avenue/Opebi, Alausa CBD, and Lagos Island CBD) where parking space is hard to find. Now, they've banned Okadas, thereby forcing us to use our cars compulsorily, and now they are threatening us with seizure if we park along sidewalks.

This government is clearly bereft of ideas, so it has resorted to knee-jerk and strong-arm oppressive tactics to mask its deficiencies.

Yomieluv: Fasola is loosing it,he needs to change its tatics.

Let him face more pressing need of the people,rather than all these nonsense.

Where do you want us to park our cars,on the roof?
Oga Fasola,if you can't rule again,simply resign,don't use all these to cover your incompetence

Necessity is the mother of invention

azpeculiar:

This is not about Okadas but illegal street parking.

My next door neighbor lost his car to car-jackers about a month ago when he parked it on an adjoining street all night. Prior to that he must have felt Fashola was wicked! I'd like to sample his opinion now.

If you do not want to live in a mega-city, if you can't be a law-abiding resident in a mega-city relocate to Ogun state ASAP! The days of being cajoled and appealed to be responsible are gone! Period!

**Now wheels him in to see a psychiatrist.**

CrazyMan:

http://www.punchng.com/news/lasg-to-seize-vehicles-parked-on-sidewalk/

olivertwist: Gov. Fashola, pls continue to lay a firm foundation for Lagos state with the BRICKS that haters are throwing at you. TIME will TELL.

Eko o ni baje.

Alpet: What fashola did was right, "we all know the right thing to do, the hard part is doing it". We know dat parking by the road side is at risk and has even caused alot of accidents nd traffic jam. But what I expect form BRF is to construct public garage.

idowuswap: Igbos are the most animal that constituite nuisansical act in lasgidi.bcuzz if they go thief motor then go park am for road side so police no go fit get their clue.shitttttt

Ejiné: Very good!
Government should build multi-decker parking lots though. Abi wetin una think?

lumeneng22: YES we have seen it,our eyes have opened we will never ever vote for a useless party like acn again in lagos God forbid bad thin,Eko ti bajeoooooo!

Yomieluv: Fasola is loosing it,he needs to change its tatics.

Let him face more pressing need of the people,rather than all these nonsense.

Where do you want us to park our cars,on the roof?
Oga Fasola,if you can't rule again,simply resign,don't use all these to cover your incompetence

Yomieluv: Fasola is loosing it,he needs to change its tatics.

Let him face more pressing need of the people,rather than all these nonsense.

Where do you want us to park our cars,on the roof?
Oga Fasola,if you can't rule again,simply resign,don't use all these to cover your incompetence

POTUT: Dear Fashola,

In aspiring to be a mega city, do you consume yourself with the appearance of it, or do you consciously engineer its DNA?

New York City designed the grid system for their sky scrapers way back in the 1920s. That was the DNA bring engineered. As years passed, the city took shape. Here in your chaotic Lagos, what has your government done to design the DNA of the new towns in Ibeju Lekki and Ajah? Private citizens are buying and building and its spreading like wild fire, when I look at it, I see no government presence. Your government has not come to mark out roads and set backs. There is no visible sign of law and order in the manner in which these pseudo estates are springing up. When you drive through most of them, the muddy/sandy/earth roads are irregular in shape because omoniles have sold land arbitrarily. There is no provision for kerb or sidewalk. Where is your government? Ten years from now, LASG will remember that these places need to be sanitized to look like a mega city.

You are not filling the gap in local transportation, yet you are killing with a heavy hand an industry which impacts positively on the health (green house emissions from okada is lower than from keke) and income of families (and GDP of the State), instead of regulating them smartly.
Your rehabilitated Lekki-Epe expressway carries multiple roundabouts instead of overhead bridges. I wonder what the vision was? For a part of the State which will witness the highest density of residents very soon. With this kind of thinking, all the overheads we have in Lagos would have been roundabouts had they been built by Tinubu and Fashola in the 1970s. By 2016, the Jakande and Ajah bus stop roundabouts on that road will be an obnoxious cycle of gridlock. You can bet on this.

Is it the appearance you are obsessed with, or the DNA that will regulate development that you should be concerned with? Just like a tree bears fruit which carries its DNA, that tree will never have to worry how the seed will grow because it already carries its instructions within.

Fashola, please stop chasing appearances, rather engineer mega city development DNAs and every thing will fall into place...it must not be in your short tenure!

pro01: Parking on so-called sidewalks in Lagos is definitely not the ideal situation, but it is an inevitable expedience in light of the government's failure to put in place an efficient and sufficient public transportation system - thereby forcing every middle class wannabe to put his or her tokunbo car on the roads. In Abuja for instance, one can do without compulsorily going out in one's private car because taxis are very cheap and overabundant.

In Lagos, taxis are priced beyond common sense, the danfo buses/Molues/BRTs are smelly and unfit for most middle class wannabes, the roads are small (and BAD), and (government approved) buildings generally have less parking space than should be the case. To worsen the already bad situation, the LASG banned Okadas - a practical means of transportation that ensured that a good number of car owners could leave their cars at home sometimes. What is the result? We all head out in our cars, and what happens when there are more private cars on the roads than legitimate parking spaces? We park along sidewalks or other expedient places we find. These things are complex problems, which means that the solutions cannot be as simple as 'ban this, seize that'. People need to use their brains; that's why we put them in public office!

As long as these failings and deficits are not addressed, it is preposterous to keep comparing Lagos to civilised cities like London, et al - where middle class people easily commute to work daily with public transport, thereby reducing vehicular congestion on the roads. How many of you here would be willing go to work daily in danfo buses?

In the typical mental indolence of the backward Black Man, it is always easier to admire the Oyinbo man's finished product without bothering to learn and implement the processes that led to the creation of that finished product. You don't establish a mega city by dictatorial fiat. It can only become possible one good road at a time, one functional street light at a time, and one efficient rail line at a time, etc. Let's not keep fooling ourselves with this romantic delusion that Lagos is a mega city in the making - even though no attempt is being made to build the foundation for it, brick by brick.

This tendency to put the cart before the horse is hardly a measure of intelligence, but rather a sign of primitive impetuousness and mental laziness.