₦airaland Forum

EdonhappenTv:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUGS07KYO2M

A viral video has surfaced showing the Benin–Asaba Expressway in a devastating condition after hours of heavy rainfall. The once-busy highway has now turned into a muddy, flooded nightmare, with deep potholes, stranded vehicles, and frustrated commuters battling to move through the chaos.

Drivers and passengers could be seen wading through knee-deep water as trucks and cars got stuck for hours, causing major traffic gridlock. Many residents have taken to social media to lament the poor state of federal roads and the lack of proper drainage systems in the area.

The video has since sparked outrage, with citizens calling on both the Edo and Delta State governments, as well as the Federal Ministry of Works, to take immediate action and fix the collapsing road before it becomes completely impassable.

🎥 Watch the full clip to see how terrible the situation has become — and hear what stranded motorists had to say.

Konquest:
You have a brilliant point there. Regardless that road would still have to be rebuilt using the standard method of using bitumen.

Second, Edo State is part of the bitumen belt which is the 2nd largest reserve in the world after Canada and the bitumen belt extends from Lagos to Ogun to Ondo (the epicenter of the bitumen reserves) and Edo States. Yet nothing is being done to maximize the extraction of bitumen with bitumen refineries for road construction and other value additions. The bitumen reserves is officially more than the entire crude oil reserves in Nigeria!

deji17:
Once the Coastal road is complete, there will be less traffic on some of these roads which will make repair work easier and quicker . A road like this will go from main / primary link road to alternate / secondary route connection.
But some, one way thinkers and myopic people will tell you not to construct a new road untill all the existing one are fixed.

Konquest:
You have a brilliant point there. Regardless that road would still have to be rebuilt using the standard method of using bitumen.

Second, Edo State is part of the bitumen belt which is the 2nd largest reserve in the world after Canada and the bitumen belt extends from Lagos to Ogun to Ondo (the epicenter of the bitumen reserves) and Edo States. Yet nothing is being done to maximize the extraction of bitumen with bitumen refineries for road construction and other value additions. The bitumen reserves is officially more than the entire crude oil reserves in Nigeria!

EdonhappenTv:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUGS07KYO2M

A viral video has surfaced showing the Benin–Asaba Expressway in a devastating condition after hours of heavy rainfall. The once-busy highway has now turned into a muddy, flooded nightmare, with deep potholes, stranded vehicles, and frustrated commuters battling to move through the chaos.

Drivers and passengers could be seen wading through knee-deep water as trucks and cars got stuck for hours, causing major traffic gridlock. Many residents have taken to social media to lament the poor state of federal roads and the lack of proper drainage systems in the area.

The video has since sparked outrage, with citizens calling on both the Edo and Delta State governments, as well as the Federal Ministry of Works, to take immediate action and fix the collapsing road before it becomes completely impassable.

🎥 Watch the full clip to see how terrible the situation has become — and hear what stranded motorists had to say.

Adakintroy:
How road take de reach this condition. When we get federal road maintenance agency.

codemaniacs:
nope, not a brilliant point...

if the coastal road ever gets built, then the coastal road will spoil quickly due to high traffic, rain, accidents e.t.c..

if the above happens then the coastal road will become an eye-sore just like this one and with the Atlantic ocean right beside it, means the Atlantic ocean will get much more polluted than it already is...

which is the plan of the people giving Zinubu orders and telling him what to do...

Sonnobax15:

Make una tell Tinubu to kukuma turn that road to federal fish pond na

Konquest:
The point @deji was making which I agreed with is that the Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway is made of strong reinforced concrete and would last longer than MOST conventional roads made of coal tar or whatever. There is a road spur that is now gonna connect Edo State to the main Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway because Edo State wasn't included originally. Ebonyi State too will have a road spur connecting it and the rest of the South East of Nigeria to the Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway as well in the Eastern flank.

Constructing the Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway doesn't stop the simultaneous construction of other highways and the man in charge of the Works Ministry will ensure it's done as long as pressure is piled on him via social media to act with a sense of urgency based on available funds.

InvertedHammer:
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These should be top priority but people are cheering over secondary Coastal highway---good adventure but low on the scale of preference. Understandably, it is a conduit to recover funds expended in 2023 election.

APC till eternity! Who dies first loses.

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codemaniacs:
Never..

Heavy rainfall in Lagos alone will tear the coastal road apart.

codemaniacs:
Must everything be federal

Edo and Delta state should create their own state road maintenance agencies.

EdonhappenTv:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUGS07KYO2M

A viral video has surfaced showing the Benin–Asaba Expressway in a devastating condition after hours of heavy rainfall. The once-busy highway has now turned into a muddy, flooded nightmare, with deep potholes, stranded vehicles, and frustrated commuters battling to move through the chaos.

Drivers and passengers could be seen wading through knee-deep water as trucks and cars got stuck for hours, causing major traffic gridlock. Many residents have taken to social media to lament the poor state of federal roads and the lack of proper drainage systems in the area.

The video has since sparked outrage, with citizens calling on both the Edo and Delta State governments, as well as the Federal Ministry of Works, to take immediate action and fix the collapsing road before it becomes completely impassable.

🎥 Watch the full clip to see how terrible the situation has become — and hear what stranded motorists had to say.

codemaniacs:
Never..

Heavy rainfall in Lagos alone will tear the coastal road apart.

SageTravels:
This is AI. All the roads are fixed.

deji17:
Once the Coastal road is complete, there will be less traffic on some of these roads which will make repair work easier and quicker . A road like this will go from main / primary link road to alternate / secondary route connection.
But some, one way thinkers and myopic people will tell you not to construct a new road untill all the existing one are fixed.