Traffic on Third Mainland Bridge
After four months of repairs on the Third Mainland Bridge,
Lagos residents who commute across the lagoon using the roads linking
the bridge to their destinations are happy that the long and slow
journey is gradually giving way to normalcy, writes Adeola Akinremi
Until last week, connecting Lagos Island from its Mainland and other
parts of the state was like reminiscence of Thomas Stearns Eliot’s
Journey of the Magi. For a journey, such as Ikeja to Marina was long,
hard and tough. Though, no Carmel galled for as long as it lasted, it
was the commuters, Lagos yellow bus drivers and private car owners who
pinched. Hard and bitter agony for everyone with businesses and
schedules across the ocean, it was just the worst time of the year.
