There was mayhem yesterday on the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway as negligence and lack of coordination by the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, the Police, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, and tank farm owners combined to lock down the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, the major access road to the nation’s busiest seaports.

Consequently, thousands of commuters and motorists were trapped in one of the worst traffic nightmares witnessed in recent months after container-laden trucks and fuel tankers brought the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway to a standstill, triggering a fresh blame game among the NPA, tank farm owners, truck drivers and traffic management agencies over the persistent gridlock along the nation’s busiest port corridor

The gridlock, which crippled movement along the Mile 2-Berger Yard axis and adjoining routes, was worsened by the indiscriminate parking of trucks on both sides of the road and reckless driving by truck operators along the Mile 2-Tin Can corridor.

Motorists and commuters spent several hours on journeys that ordinarily would have taken less than one hour, while commercial transport operators lamented huge losses caused by the traffic paralysis.

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