By Godwin Oritse
THE traffic gridlock currently being experienced along the Mile-2 end of the Oshodi-Apapa expressway leading to the port access road is due to the inability of truck drivers to adhere to the electronic call-up time table prepared for trucks to go the pre-gates before entering the ports.
Vanguard Maritime Report gathered that a time table for five categories of vehicles to enter the ports had been drawn up and sent to all relevant stakeholders with a view to getting their cooperation and ease the traffic situation in and around Apapa.
Sources close to Transit Truck Park Limited also said that the categories of vehicles that the time table is applicable are trucks carrying export cargoes, flatbeds, truck carrying empty containers, reefer trucks (refrigerated container bearing trucks) and general cargo trucks.
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Apapa gridlock: Lagos traffic team uncovers e-Callup ticket forgery by truck drivers
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By Olasunkanmi Akoni and Godwin Oritse
Barely a week and half after Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, commenced the new electronic- Call Up System into the administration of port operations to ease gridlock in the axis, Lagos State Special Traffic Management Enforcement Team, said it has uncovered scandal involving counterfeiting of call up tickets, tagged; “Eto” by truck drivers and owners.
The development, it was learnt was said to be responsible for the initial teething problems experienced in the last one week when the initiative commenced.
Several efforts in the past to tackle the intractable perennial gridlock had failed forcing business owners to relocate to neighbouring countries as well as some residents abandoning their residences and other properties to safe abodes.