Lagos-Abuja journey to take four hours through Supersonic Highway – Minister

Lagos-Abuja journey to take four hours through Supersonic Highway – Minister

The proposed Lagos 4th Mainland Bridge Supersonic Highway will ease travelling from Lagos to Abuja, making it a four-hour journey, Minister of Works, David Umahi, has said.

He also said solar lights would be fixed to CCTV to monitor roads and increase their visibility to reduce insecurity on the highways.

It currently takes between eight and ten hours to travel from Lagos to Abuja by road due to bad road and traffic snarl.

The minister spoke during a visit to Ogun and Oyo states on Thursday in continuation of his highway inspection tour.

This is contained in a statement by the Director Press and Public Relations unit of the Ministry of Works, Blessing Lere-Adams, on Friday.

During a meeting with the Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, in his Office in Abeokuta, Umahi was quoted to have said, “Let me announce to you that Lagos proposed 4th Mainland Bridge Supersonic Highway will take four hours to drive from Lagos to Abuja.

“We had a presentation on it yesterday with the consultant and it’s going to be on Public Private Partnership (PPP), driving from Lagos to Abuja will take 4 hours, we are concluding on it within one or two months and work will start.”

He further told the governor, “We have a programme called Highway Development Management Initiative (HDMI) and it allows states and other private investors to engage with the Federal Government either to take over a fully constructed road to toll and maintain it in partnership with FG or take a brand new road and reconstruct it and toll it under laid down agreement.

“l am very much open to that, we also bring some roads architecture into this kind of arrangement. Solar lights where we can fix CCTV to monitor our roads and increase visibility; this will largely reduce insecurity and also create service stations. We can monitor security at these service stations; we have mini clinics, toll vans at these stations just as we see outside the country.”