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Nigeria: Airport Road - Lugbe Traffic Congestion - an Eye Sore
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
3 July 2008
Posted to the web 3 July 2008
Atika Balal
One of the greatest challenges most residents of Lugbe, Airport Road and Life camp have had to deal with everyday before and after office hours is the issue of traffic congestion.
This outrageous congestion is fast becoming a menace to the society leaving one to wonder if it is as a result of over population in the territory, narrow roads or impatience, negligence and recklessness of the drivers themselves.
Being the major route to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, it is an eyesore particularly to foreigners who come into the country and the city from the airport especially for the first time. Residents of this part of Abuja are right to express worry over this traffic congestion because it has become a huge stumbling stone to them.
It is a known fact that most times, people who are in a rush to get to work end up being late and those who have other genuine pressing appointments to meet end up missing them. You would agree with me that without even having an appointment to meet, being caught up in a hold up isn't the most exciting of situations.
With the number of people who reside outside the territory and others who come in from far for various reasons on a daily basis, it isn't surprising that there is always traffic congestion in this part of town.
What is surprising is that those responsible for addressing the issue of congestion do not seem to notice that there is in fact a problem that needs to be solved.
Another thing that contributes to this unbearable situation is the motorists, particularly bus drivers who do not really seem to care how they park their vehicles on the road sides and how much of a nuisance they constitute.
The idea of making Abuja the capital city and the administrative centre of the country automatically means that there would be an increase in the number of people in the territory and those who come in too; as such, it is expected that the roads are able to accommodate as many vehicles and pedestrians as possible to avoid traffic jam.
With so many projects and construction underway in the FCT, residents of this part of Abuja appeal to the Federal Government and the FCT Minister, Dr. Aliyu Modibbo Umar, to tackle these problems as one of their immediate goals.
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By providing alternatives like adequate parking lots particularly for commercial vehicles and more flyover bridges in the territory, the problem could appreciably decrease.
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