The Third
Lagos-Mainland Bridge will be shut for four days this week, commencing from
midnight of August 23 to midnight of August 26, for investigative maintenance
test.
The Lagos
State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Ade Akinsanya, disclosed that
the state government will shut the bridge, in a statement released on Sunday.
Akinsanya
explained that the decision was taken after the state government’s due
consultation with the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing.
He said the
four-day closure, will enable contractors assess the true state of the bridge,
after which works would commence by the end of the year or early 2019.
“The 3rd
Mainland Bridge which was opened about 30 years ago by the then military
government has had haphazard maintenance and repairs in the past which the
present Federal Government is committed to correct by carrying out proper and
continuous maintenance and repairs on it,” Akinsanya said.
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