₦airaland Forum

franugo:
This makes no sense, we've all passed through the bridge and all been held up for hours due to traffic. TBH, most of the time, the congestions are due to police stopping cars to drag them for money and people driving one way, but traffic na traffic.
Secondly, I don't understand the essence of the op's post, did you not see the distance between the truck and the bus? Do you believe the truck would have been able to pass, or vice versa, if both were in motion? What is your aim exactly in making this post?

naptu2:
Some people also claimed that the barriers were too heavy for the bridge. They made this claim without knowing the weight of the barriers and the load bearing capacity of the bridge.

In actual fact the barriers were placed there to solve that problem.

Quite often vehicles drive against the flow of traffic, thereby blocking vehicles coming in the opposite direction. This causes traffic jams and increases static load on the bridge. All those cars that are stopped in traffic on the bridge are heavier than the barriers that were placed there.

The new system eliminates this problem. The lanes have been properly demarcated, there is space to go past any broken down vehicle and there are junctions so that vehicles can make U-turns and the bridge can be decongested.

However some people are also advocating that large trucks should be banned from the Niger Bridge and made to use the Second Niger Bridge instead.


Speech by the Honourable Minister of Works, Engineer David Umahi, at the reopening of the Niger Bridge after rehabilitation works

The representative of the governor of Delta, my brother Charles who is commissioner of rural roads and public infrastructure and my friend the representative of the governor of Anambra state, the honourable commissioner for works. The leader. . . deputy chief of the 10th Senate, Barrister Onyekachi Nwaebonyi. Your majesty the Asagba of Asaba, your majesty thank you very much. Thank you. Your majesty the Igurube 1. I'm told. . . They have given me your resume and I think that the two of you are so powerful that I want to be a friend to two of you. Thank you very much, your majesty who is in charge of this side of Anambra State. The SSAs to Mr. President South-South, South-East. The director of bridges and design, the content creator that alerted us on the dangers of this bridge. Let me stand on protocol and please, you know, my brothers and sisters for want of time.

My gratitude goes to the president of Federal Republic of Nigeria.

You know when we had issues with the Third Mainland Bridge, we were alerted and we went there and we renovated it. We put solar light, we put asphalt, we put CCTV to oversee what is happening below the bridge and on top of the bridge and the entire Nigerians, especially Lagosians they appreciated Mr. President, they appreciated the minister of works.

When we were alerted on this bridge, we immediately came. This content creator alerted us and we immediately came. We reviewed the bridge. We reviewed the problems of the bridge. People were removing bolts. This bridge is basically built on steel frames and so removing the bolts was very dangerous, you know, the removing of the bolts and cutting the iron, they were dangerous events that would have collapsed the bridge. We also noticed that there was no maintenance since 1966.

That bridge was built and commissioned by the then prime minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency Tafawa Balewa. And so we had to now re-lay the asphalt. Exactly the treatment we gave to the Third Mainland Bridge is the treatment we give to this place.

And we also did a median demarcation because bridges are not built for static loads. And so the engineers, emergency engineers began to talk. Content creators began to talk. And I think there are some people that are very mad. You talk what you do not know. You are not an engineer. Some of you didn't even go to school. You just talk. Even one lady that is an IPOB spokesperson who has turned to become an Obidient spokesperson was even talking, calling me out and talking all kinds of rubbish.

The bridge is standing and for reasons of. . . to instill discipline in the use of this bridge because if you continue to use the bridge, it is designed for 50 years and so if you continue to load this bridge by reason of static loads and indisciplined ways of driving on the bridge then the bridge is going to be endangered and when it's endangered we are all going to suffer it and that's why we put the median.

We also created some turn around, the passages, three of them so that if you have a breakdown then you'll be able to maneuver through the U-turns and that is what we have done.

We put in CCTV here, we've loaded the bridge with solar light and we are building observation center at both ends of the bridge so that the security will stay there and monitor what is happening below and under.

And let me place it on notice to the two directors of Delta and Anambra. The law given by the Federal Government is that there should be no dredging of sand 10 kilometres radius in every of our bridges. But I'm seeing dredging of sand even 20 metres away from these bridges. I am placing it on notice that I will bring disciplinary action against two of you if the dredging fails to stop.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Saw_iXlSQ?si=ie25T_ZP9vq4WVKp

naptu2:
Let's start counting the number of people that will not understand the post because they can't read. They will look at the title of the thread, look at pictures and start reacting.

naptu2:
🤣🤣🤣🤣

So I am no longer a mod? I am now Seun?

This is premium entertainment!

I wonder what the next allegation that they will manufacture will be.

Okoroawusa:
Naptu2... You are wasting your time with these people. I gave up on them a long time ago.

stanisbaratheon:
Judging by how close the big truck came to hitting that mini bus, I am curious, what if an equally big truck breaks down? How will other big trucks pass?

ALCOHOLKILLS:
This op is mischievous and don't mean well for south East, is obvious he is from SW. why is he carrying more than the bereaved just to prove a point and market his ebola brother. Allow people who use the bridge to voice out their frustration. Even the so call minister and ebola president don't use the bridge, rather they use private jets

Cc naptu naptu2

naptu2:
In fact we need to also show under the truck to determine whether the fishes were safe.

naptu2:
The Niger Bridge was recently rehabilitated and barriers were placed on the bridge to create a median.

Some people claimed that the bridge was a two-lane road and that the median would create traffic jams. They claimed that nobody would be able to pass the bridge if a vehicle broke down on it. This is not true.

The bridge is actually a four-lane bridge and vehicles are able to go past any broken down vehicle on the bridge. This video illustrates that point.

A minibus broke down on the bridge and a large truck was able to go past it without problems.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpEB82wz0HI?si=6nIgycdsVLTLe-35

saintneo:
Typical of APC folks.

naptu2:
In fact we need to also show under the truck to determine whether the fishes were safe.

naptu2:
The Niger Bridge was recently rehabilitated and barriers were placed on the bridge to create a median.

Some people claimed that the bridge was a two-lane road and that the median would create traffic jams. They claimed that nobody would be able to pass the bridge if a vehicle broke down on it. This is not true.

The bridge is actually a four-lane bridge and vehicles are able to go past any broken down vehicle on the bridge. This video illustrates that point.

A minibus broke down on the bridge and a large truck was able to go past it without problems.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpEB82wz0HI?si=6nIgycdsVLTLe-35

socoharley:
So what happens when a truck as big as this one breaks down? Do you think it will be able to go past that narrow passage?
I actually almost got fooled thinking you were smart

naptu2:
A minibus broke down on the bridge and a large truck was able to go past it without problems.

naptu2:
In actual fact the barriers were placed there to solve that problem

naptu2:
The Niger Bridge was recently rehabilitated and barriers were placed on the bridge to create a median.

Some people claimed that the bridge was a two-lane road and that the median would create traffic jams. They claimed that nobody would be able to pass the bridge if a vehicle broke down on it. This is not true.

The bridge is actually a four-lane bridge and vehicles are able to go past any broken down vehicle on the bridge. This video illustrates that point.

A minibus broke down on the bridge and a large truck was able to go past it without problems.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpEB82wz0HI?si=6nIgycdsVLTLe-35

fyneboi79:
Common sense should tell you that if a truck of this size breaks down then there would be no way it can pass because seeing that with this minibus is a very narrow exit.

fyneboi79:
Common sense should tell you that if a truck of this size breaks down then there would be no way it can pass because seeing that with this minibus is a very narrow exit.

naptu2:
🤣 The guy is still trying.