FG To Fix, Shut Down Third Mainland Bridge For Six Months In 2024

The Federal Controller of Works, Olukorede Keisha, on Friday, disclosed that major repair work will begin on Third Mainland Bridge in January 2024.

Keisha made this known while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily.

She said, “The bridge, which is a connecting link between island and mainland, will be closed temporarily for six months during the period of the major repair work.

“So we were saying let us do a complete overhaul of the asphalt overlay. Some of them have been long overdue because we haven’t done that in the last 30 years. It is just the failures that have shown up that we have been addressing.”

According to her, the contract has already been awarded by the Federal Government, adding that what the government currently wants to do is palliative work.

She said, “The Federal government has awarded that contract already, and preparatory works are pending when the contractor moves to the site because there are some elements of repairs that need to be imported.

“Pending that we just want to do palliative work to provide relief for motorists.”

“It is going to take the contractor 3 months to import those elements needed for the repair.

“One bound will be for 3 months then we will divert to the other bound once we are done with this bound we will bring back traffic to this lane.

“Afterwards we were going to have a very brand new road,” she added.