I think Lagos State should create a Trailer task force as an entity on its own or relegate SARS to handle tbese people. These trailer incidents needs to be put to a stop. We can't be looking our loved ones because of all these rickety and condemned trailers that have no hinges to support the containers that they carry

Things keep repeating itself yet nothing is done about it. It's a pity .

greatnaija01:
this is the THIRD TIME.... it happens each year... sOMETHING is wrong.

Nothing is wrong. It is what the people want that they are getting. If goverment places a ban on those dead trucks plying our roads, the same people will cry out that their source of livelihood is being taking away.

hmmmm

richie9093:


Instead of thinking about what other solutions might be so this will be avoided in the future, you're here already attaching a superstitious belief to it.

That is how an average Nigerian thinks. You bringing superstition into it means in your mind, you have already concluded no solution can be made so this won't happen in the future again.

Black man, Black sense. smfh.

Where in my write up did i insinuate 'no solution can be made' Mr. Mind Reader? You're just jumping to conclusions in order to sound pseudo-intelligent. So giving the meaning of the name ojuelegba is now being superstituous? Why not proffer your solutions, Albert Einstein?

What would a container-loaded articulated truck be doing on that Bridge for God's sake.
When will the LASG or FG install Truck barriers at the two entry points to that Bridge.
This is just to annoying please.
May the souls of the departed rest in peace.

damoskiy:
That bridge needs repairs... Lagos State has slept too much in looking for solution to that bridge. Almost all the railings are off.


They should work on that bridge... Too many accidents.... Everyone should use under the bridge for a while...

Everyone can't use ojuelegba under bridge because the traffic will be crazy, under bridge links to lawanson on d left and yaba to the right or vice versa depending on your location, and it leads to stadium barracks iponri costain iganmu, and also leads to empire and fadeyi link bridge to ikorodu palm groove expressway,
lagos state should only ban articulate vehicles conveying containers, gas tanker and petrol tankers, caterpillar trailers conveyors to ply that bridge. I pass the bridge regularly with blue brt buses from ikorodu to cms. one you are about to climb the bridge, the joints expansion plates on the bridge makes ur vehicle to gallop and if a trailer is loaded it can gallop the carriage away.
and all this trailers are coming from apapa port, wharf aand tincan island port and the link from ijora course way to iponri to ojuelegba linking to ojota linking to lagos ibadan expressway.
I will suggest to the government to enact a laaw for trailers coming from the port to find their way to liverpool and link to mile 2 and link to oshodi to oworo to berger to mowe rather than passing inward to ojuelegba.

rusher14:
Looks like they may have to prevent cargo carrying trailers from using the bridge.

Compel them to use the road beneath the bridge.

Do you know the amount of traffic jam they will cause going under the bridge. We are talking about a lot of trucks here. If there were functional ports in Port Harcourt, Calabar, even Onitsha with the dredging of the Lower Niger. The congestion of Lagos will be a bygone issue, but they are playing politics with it. Let them continue.

sexdoll:
nothing to cry about

after all, it is the will of GOD.

OboOlora:

WTF is assistant CMD, is it CMAC or what?

U sound like a bloody illiterate!

It was uncalled for to berate someone in that manner. Do you have a personal quarrel with him?

greatnaija01:
this is the THIRD TIME.... it happens each year... sOMETHING is wrong.

Nothing is wrong except that your governments take things forgranted. Dont be surprised, the next news would be that ojuelegba bridge has collapse. Then my religious brothers would start resurrecting the witches and wizards in their villages

The most painful part be say traffic to dey there so if traffic hold cars beside the bridge how will they even know a trailer is on motion over them, to me I guess the traffic light should be removed

justtoodark:
how do you bring a truck to fall off a bridge...??

do police even check people for mental issues and alchohol sef....?

Police are more interested in receiving #100 than any other thing

Omihanifa:
may GOD protect our going out and coming in

Amen. And I went through that bridge yesterday when i went to get my jersey. God will surely continue to protect us

uuzba:


In Europe, all their trucks are new or in good road worthy condition. New tires, proper suspension systems, working brakes, good engine condition and not overloaded.

Here, we are so used to bad and damaged vehicles that we think we can call black white.
No matter how you ignore the issue, a bad vehicle is a bad vehicle and it will fall and cause an accident Own up, say it is bad and stop managing it. Accidents like this will just continue to happen until the truck is taken for complete ovehaul and total rebuilding.

as if its only trucks....how many nigerians drive new cars....we import okrika and then dont even go to check up.....because na white people drove....its okay to drive.......our inferiority complex disturbs us any way possible...

we dont cheerish our lifes because whites say we cant do it...and we believe our enemies.....if blacks were in animal kingdom,they would be a extinct species long ago....

nymphomaniac:
I passed that bridge by 7:30 pm oh. This life sha

go and sin no more

Why can't heavy trucks be banned from using the bridge. It is not a difficult thing to do. A barrier should be placed at the entrance to the bridge.

I pray next time it happens, the relative of one of the top shots in the country in involved, then finding a solution will become sacrosanct



My take

justtoodark:


as if its only trucks....how many nigerians drive new cars....we import okrika and then dont even go to check up.....because na white people drove....its okay to drive.......our inferiority complex disturbs us any way possible...

we dont cheerish our lifes because whites say we cant do it...and we believe our enemies.....if blacks were in animal kingdom,they would be a extinct species long ago....

Are you a truck � driver?

zaltman:


Are you a truck � driver?

nope....but i wanted to learn it....

rusher14:
Looks like they may have to prevent cargo carrying trailers from using the bridge.

Compel them to use the road beneath the bridge.

They should not even be using that bridge in the first place. They should follow down while cars follow up.

nymphomaniac:
Traffic will be mad Tomorrow morning

guy no dulling,wake up by 2am and start moving.in lagos,even the sky falls,normal activities must roll

nymphomaniac:
Traffic will be mad Tomorrow morning

guy no dulling,wake up by 2am and start moving.in lagos,even the sky falls,normal activities must roll

Gabbysky:
What would a container-loaded articulated truck be doing on that Bridge for God's sake.
When will the LASG or FG install Truck barriers at the two entry points to that Bridge.
This is just to annoying please.
May the souls of the departed rest in peace.

There are no alternative routes, the rail line which is supposed to be used isn't functioning cos some wicked people sabotaged it, you see Ehn if a country would make little sense Logistics and transportation is key. America built a proper rail system in their formation years, sea ports system which would get things across states seamlessly but since it's only Road transportation we know that's the reason why this is still a case, it's not even normal to have a truck in the city metro talkless of it being on a bridge. Mind you transporting via rail is cheaper than using heavy containers so the question is who's working hard not to have the Railway System work? Who owns this haulage companies? How come they let them checkout of the ports?

THEY SHOULD BAN TRUCKS FROM MOVING ON THAT BRIDGE

They should appease them at that Junction, enough of these human sacrifice they are receiving please.

Zionista:
We have a very senseless government in place. Similar accident occurred a few years ago leaving many dead in its trail.

No remedial,corrective and preventive measures have been taken to prevent a recurrence. No reinforcement,barriers and railings to mitigate the impact should there be a reoccurrence of such.

Safety consciousness is like rocket science to Nigerian leaders and employers.

Such a shame.

Is the government different from the people who allow them to run their affairs

Funjosh:
They should appease them at that Junction, enough of these human sacrifice they are receiving please.

I thought that this is the 21st century. Why are you still stuck in the cave dweller mentality

greatnaija01:
this is the THIRD TIME.... it happens each year... sOMETHING is wrong.

Dangote and the other big companies that are allowed to pack over 50 trucks on that bridge between barracks and Ojuelegba is what is wrong, and, it should be reviewed, I don't think trucks should have anything to do with bridges, not to talk of the hundreds that go over that bridge daily

Thank you God, I passed that bridge around 9pm yesterday

Appliedmaths:
Fam that's my Monday to Friday Bus park - under that bridge to Ikeja axis, only God knew why I over stayed in the office today to honour a late date.

Thank God for this guy Abeg.

Marry him O. He's God sent