Relief as Sanwo-Olu Inaugurates Pen Cinema Flyover
Lagosians have waved an exciting bye to the age-long vehicular gridlock in and around Agege, with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu opening the Pen Cinema Bridge and Àve roads that are expected to make motoring a better experience.
The inauguration yesterday marked the fulÀlment of another campaign promise made by Sanwo-Olu to residents, who daily endured pains in commuting within the axis in the last four years.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, inaugurated the projects, which he described as “needed catalyst” for the resuscitation of economic activities on the axis.
The construction of the 1.4-kilometre long Áyover was recommended during the Lagos Economic Summit (Ehingbeti) under ex-Governor Babatunde Fashola’s administration, as a strategic intervention to achieving signiÀcant trac improvement in the densely populated area. The Akinwunmi Ambode administration created the right-of-way and set up the structural beams; Sanwo-Olu substantially completed civil works on the bridge.
The imposing overpass ascends from Oba Ogunji Road and drops at Oke Koto, Agege. The bridge also opens to the old Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway through Abule-Egba.
Tumultuous crowds of excited residents joined Sanwo-Olu and members of the State’s Executive Council at the ceremony.
The Governor described the delivery of the project as a “landmark progress” in his administration’s drive towards eliminating bottlenecks causing suͿocating gridlocks to relieve residents of the stress associated with commuting.
Sanwo-Olu said the two-pronged approach, which his administration deployed in delivering critical infrastructure, gave priority to continuation and completion of strategic projects, regular maintenance and construction of new ones in line with the State’s Strategic Transport Master Plan (STMP).