Third Mainland Bridge Safe, FG Assures Motorists In Lagos

The Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing has guaranteed drivers in Lagos, Nigeria's business focus, that the Third Mainland Bridge is ok for use.

Brief News comprehends that the service gave the affirmation on the back of submerged corroborative tests on the extension's heaps.

"The open is, thus, educated that the extension joint appeared in a Facebook video cut, is one of those slated for change amid fixes on the Third Mainland Bridge; which would start soon," an announcement from the service read.

"It is as yet working and our architects and advisors have prompted that it doesn't represent any basic risk to the extension and it is ok for use.

"Suburbanites and Lagos inhabitants will review that the Third Mainland Bridge was closed down for a three-day Investigative Maintenance in August 2018.

"Tests done on the extension joints then– called static and dynamic burden tests — were to check usefulness.

"Various development joints were distinguished for substitution at that point.

"All the more as of late, in March this year, submerged corroborative tests (video joined) going before the fix attempts to be done on the Bridge, were done on the heaps, to decide whether there was further weakening or not; on the heaps from that done in 2013.

"Nonetheless, every one of the tests done preliminary to conclusion of the scaffold, to initiate far reaching upkeep works, demonstrate that the honesty of the extension is flawless.

"Thusly, the Third Mainland Bridge is ok for use, and individuals should cease from spreading or sharing false data about the Bridge on Social Media stages.

"The extension joints to be supplanted are a piece of a normal scaffold support program that has been dismissed for a considerable length of time, which the President Muhammadu Buhari organization is currently tending to frontally, on numerous scaffolds across the country.

"Such support works incorporate reemerging of the extension, alongside a few others, which this organization is likewise undertakingb as the scaffold clients will confirm a superior driving surface."

The Third Mainland Bridge is the longest of three extensions associating Lagos Island to the territory.