Drivers flee, trucks impounded as LASTMA enforces restriction order on Third Mainland bridge
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) conducted a special operation on Sunday, targeting trucks violating traffic laws on the Third Mainland bridge.
The enforcement drive resulted in the impounding of ten articulated trucks found to have violated the state government restriction order.
The state government had proscribed articulated vehicles that are above nine tones from plying the Third Mainland Bridge.
The enforcement operation is part of the ongoing efforts to ensure compliance with traffic regulations and maintain road safety for all Lagos residents.
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To check this trend, the Lagos State Government had inaugurated a rigorous enforcement campaign targeting articulated vehicles and heavy-duty trucks brazenly violating statutory access restrictions on the Third Mainland Bridge.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Transportation, Sola Giwa, who confirmed the enforcement operation, disclosed that the exercise is part of government effort to underscored the administration’s unwavering determination to safeguard critical infrastructure, and protect the motoring public from avoidable hazards.
Giwa revealed that the intervention followed a sustained period of stakeholder engagement, public sensitization, and issuance of formal advisories notice reiterating the proscription of articulated vehicles above nine tones from plying the Third Mainland Bridge, a structure, which he said is of strategic urban significance that recently undergone major rehabilitation.
The Commissioner revealed that despite these precautionary measures, certain recalcitrant operators have continued to flout the directives, thereby endangering both human lives and the structural integrity of the bridge.
“The Third Mainland Bridge is categorically excluded from the list of permissible routes for some articulated vehicles. This restriction is clearly enshrined in the law, and non-compliance will be met with decisive sanctions. Officers of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) have begun a full-scale enforcement operation, and defaulters will be apprehended and penalized without exemption,” he asserted.
Giwa further revealed that the bridge serves as a principal arterial link between the Lagos Mainland and the Island’s commercial nerve centre.
