Following the recent rail accident in Lagos, the Managing Director of the Nigeria railway corporation, Mr Fidet Okhiria, has announced that the corporation is set to begin construction of flyovers at level crossings.
He made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Tuesday.
According to him, “we have started the separation of road from the rail in Oyingbo and Ebute-Metta.”
He said the corporation had constructed an underground pass and an overhead pass at the Agege level crossing.
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“We are going to have 11 flyovers within Lagos and we cannot do all at the same time. We are constructing them in batches.
“Although we have been repairing them, especially the automatic barriers, they do not last for a week after such repairs.
“It is either they hit the barriers with vehicles or people vandalise them overnight,” Okhiria said.
He said that NRC would deploy men and technology to alert road users whenever trains approached the level crossings.
He urged motorists to be more careful while passing through level crossings, reminding them that life had no duplicate.
