₦airaland Forum

My rant today is directed at Civil Engineers who think making roads with open drainage is acceptable by todays world standard. Even as far as Togo and Benin that is just a stone throw away from us, Their drainage is being closed up with concrete that serves as a walkway and can be dissembled unit by unit if there is need for it. Sometimes i am confused as to how we can overvalue properties in our city centers running into millions of Naira and the best we can come up with is roads with open smelly gutters, i have travelled to a few countries and i don't see where this is being practiced and i consider this as "third world infrastructure" at best.

Whilst i understand that road infrastructure projects cost $$$, it is also imperative that we need to make futuristic and visually appealing infrastructure to sell Nigeria to the world. Part of the problems affecting Lagos is that there isn't even walkable path on our streets. While i do not completely blame govt for this, we need to standardize certain things. Take a look at the highway from Ikorodu highway the bus top that is, there was a walk way from the bustop up until Haruna but if you look at what has become of it a lot of petty traders have turned it to a market stall on display thereby pushing people away into the express, i understand that low income traders have to eke out a living there is also an enforcement issue lacking on the path of paramilitary officers like "KAI" who have to make sure the purpose of walk paths are enforced.

If you take another look at recent road construction happening around Lagos precisely one happening in Gbagada, Bariga expressway they literally interlocked the road which is somewhat commendable but pushed people away from having walk paths but rather open gutters, i find this irksome and our civil engineers should do better. Even countries are having bicycle paths to ease the effect of so many cars on the road and bring a bit of dynamism our road routes.

You may ask yourselves, i mean it is just walk paths "Kini big deal?" but if you look at how many times we have been unfortunate to brush against incoming cars that steer wrongly at our directions or Okada that brush people off the road causing accidents and injuries you would see that one cannot ignore the fact that we have to make policy changes that charges govt to approve for construction of roads in city centers that are equipped with walk paths as against open gutter with pako crossing.






-A concerned Nigerian, and i just want to make common sense.

You made sense. This open gutter should be phased out on new road projects. We cant continue using infrastructure techniques that are obsolete

They will tell you that the slabs won’t let them clean the gutters easily , that the reason they left it open is for easy cleaning and also for criminals not to make inside the covered gutter their hiding spot . Naija contractors and government get explanations for all their failures

Nanaborga:
They will tell you that the slabs won’t let them clean the gutters easily , that the reason they left it open is for easy cleaning and also for criminals not to make inside the covered gutter their hiding spot . Naija contractors and government get explanations for all their failures

Happy cleaning.

Lalasticala

If dem close am where you wan make dem dey empty their dustbin nah?... You no say nah inside gutter be Nigerian refuse dump.