The Lagos State Government has revealed that it rehabilitated 524 roads in 2021, and hopes to rehabilitate another 600 roads at the minimum, in 2022.
According to NAN, this was made known on Sunday by the Head, Public Affairs Unit of the Lagos State Public Works Corporation (LSPWC), Mr Samuel Ayetutu, where he said that over 1,000 roads were fixed between June 2019 and December 2021.
Ayetutu said various categories of major and minor rehabilitation works were carried out on 524 roads, fixed in 2021 alone, adding that, the corporation has a target to fix 600 in 2022.
What the Spokesman of LSPWC is saying
Ayetutu during the interview said, “LSPWC has worked on about 1,000 roads, that is between June 2019 to December, 2021, and this varied from total road construction to strategic and major rehabilitation.
“It also includes routine maintenance, some were internal roads within public facilities, some were estate roads. And some of the work were palliative work which were carried out to provide temporary relief, especially at the rainy season when there was no clement weather for full blown operations.
“LSPWC usually spread its operations across all the 20 local government areas, so we have every part of the state benefiting from all of these number of roads that have been mentioned which came to about 1,000.
“And if we break it down further to year 2021 only, from January to December, about 524 roads were worked on following the same pattern of various levels of interventions.’’
He said 6 roads were fully constructed from start to finish while 111 strategic roads were fixed in 2021, adding that strategic roads were important long stretches linking communities, adjoining major roads and used to disperse traffic from major carriageways, constructed almost from scratch to finish.
He said, “Our target for 2022 is to surpass the number of roads that were done in 2021, so we are looking at 600 roads in the minimum to be worked on.
“It will still follow the same pattern of sectional rehabilitation, full rehabilitation, strategic roads, internal roads, estate roads and others.’’
What you should know
The investment in road infrastructure by the Lagos State government is part of its effort at reducing the traffic challenges in the state and facilitating economic development of the state. Most of these road projects cut across all the local government areas within the state.
