ONITSHA – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Friday identified traffic gridlock as an avenue for miscreants and criminals to operate on roads, especially federal highways in the country.
The FRSC Sector Commander for Anambra State, Mr Sunday Ajayi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Onitsha that the corps wanted motorists to co-operate with it to eliminate multiple lanes which lead to traffic gridlocks.
Ajayi said that the corps was focusing on lane discipline to check multiple lanes caused by impatient drivers during rush hours as well as construction work and accident scenario.
“So we want to advise the general public, the general motoring public; now, as long as the construction is going on traffic must slow down.[eap_ad_2]
“And if the traffic is slowed down, that does not mean that people would not go, what it means that you just have to reduce speed rate of movement.
“So people should be patient, all those people that are jumping lanes, we want to advice them that is not proper to jump lane because at the end of the day the road, the traffic will lock-up and nobody would be able to go.
“All these things contribute to insecurity on our roads; because when the road is locked up the hoodlums come and they take advantage of such and it becomes another thing.
“So we want to appeal to the general public that single lane is always far better in traffic management than forming one, two, three, five lanes and locking up the movement,’’ he said.
The commander, who was monitoring the Eid-El-Kabir traffic aftermath, said that the FRSC was working to reduce traffic gridlock at the Upper Iweka axis of the Onitsha-Enugu road in order to deter miscreants from the road.
NAN reports that Anambra government, through its joint security taskforce, had chased out the age-long miscreants and criminals operating at the Upper Iweka axis of the Onitsha-Enugu road.
However, there is a growing feeling that these miscreants and criminals would likely re-group if not put in constant check, especially if they see traffic lock-up been the order of the day at the Upper-Iweka axis. (NAN) [eap_ad_3]
