on december 27, 2013 at 4:42 pm in news
Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Friday
warned traders, especially auto dealers to stop
making sections of the highways their showrooms.
Fashola gave the warning when he inaugurated the
reconstructed Kodesho Road and Simbiat Abiola Way
in Ikeja.
The governor said trading constricted the roads
thereby causing traffic gridlock and great
inconveniences to users.
He stressed that staying too long in the gridlock had
serious health implications as it could lead to
accidents, hypertension and stress.
“As we hand over these roads, I think we need to talk
to ourselves.
“We build roads to let us get to our businesses; our
places of work quickly and to make movement easier.
“But some residents covert the roads to places they
trade and as long as we continue to trade on them,
we defeat the purpose for which they were built.
“As long as we turn our roads to shopping malls
where everybody buys in traffic, we all pay the price
because you all know that such causes stress and
hypertension.
“Now, I see those who sell cars on Mobolaji Bank
Anthony Way and other areas have turned sections of
the highways into showrooms.
“I am using this opportunity to tell them to get land
where they can display and sell their cars. If we want
to be great people, we don’t turn our highways into
car shops” , he said.
Fashola reminded the traders that Lagos was fast
becoming a megacity and urged them to sell their
goods in the market, shopping malls and not on the
highways.
The governor said the delivery of the two strategic
roads was the fulfillment of his electoral promise to
improve infrastructure in all parts of the state.
He added that work was on going in over 200 inner-
city roads across the state, adding that the State
Government had awarded contracts for the
rehabilitation of additional 25 roads.
He urged Lagos people to pay their taxes to enable
the government to do more.
The Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Dr
Obafemi Hamzat, said that the roads were major
routes to decongest traffic in Ikeja.
Hamzat said that 274 new jobs were created during
the reconstruction of the two roads.
He urged the residents to protect all projects from
vandals. (NAN)

Source:www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/fashola-tells-auto-dealers-stop-using-road-sides-showrooms/