Apapa: Lagos To Manage Traffic As PTT Hands Over

The Presidential Task Team on the Restoration of Law and Order
(PTT-RLO) at the Apapa Ports and access roads has said it has
successfully handed over its activities to the Lagos State
Government.

The former Executive Vice-Chairman of the PTT, Dr Kayode Opeifa,
who made this known in a statement issued on Thursday, said LASTMA,
the Lagos State traffic management team, supported by the Lagos
State Police Command would henceforth manage the Apapa traffic.

He said: “After weeks of careful planning, I am pleased to
announce that the presidential task team charged with the
responsibility of Restoration of Law and Order on Lagos roads
leading to Apapa and around Lagos Port and Maritime Logistics
Corridor has successfully handed over its activities to the LASG to
be supported by the Lagos State Police Command.”

According to him, the decision to exit from Apapa, followed the
relative normalcy on the axis with a massive reduction in
congestion and traffic, adding that a report on the activities of
the Team, chaired by the Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo had
earlier been presented to the presidency on October 7, 2020. Adding
that the handing over process which started on November 8, 2020,
was officially completed on December 29, 2020.

According to him, the Team successfully delivered on all the
five mandates given to it namely the restoration of law and order
on all roads leading to the Lagos Ports and within the Lagos Port
maritime logistic corridor, the removal of all stationary trucks on
Lagos roads leading to the Ports and the development and deployment
of an efficient and effective traffic management plan for the
entire port area traffic (including the cargo, fuel distribution
and business district traffic).

The other two mandates he added are; Development of a Traffic
Management Direction or policy, which incorporates Port Operations,
Incident rescue management, truck throughput and park management
and special purpose Apapa Port Area Traffic Management with strict
enforcement protocols.

He said that backed with strict enforcement, the system that the
PTT developed has the capacity to clean up any congestion within
two to six hours with the cooperation of major stakeholders and an
effective incidence and recovery management system by LASTMA and
LRU.

This he added is beside the development and deployment of a
Manual Call Up system pending the introduction of an electronic
system by the NPA. The system incorporated into the Traffic
management plan envisaged trucks are called from Nominated Parks
into Transit Parks (Lilypond and Tincan Island Transit Truck Parks)
for call up into the Ports.

Working with NPA and the NSC developed and deployed a workable
Empty Container Return Handling Policy to handle empty
containers.

A reduction in the cost of Port Cargo Haulage from the Ports to
different parts of the country and an Improved Port Cargo Trucks
haulage throughput/turnaround time.

The Presidential Task Team on the Restoration of Law and Order
(PTT-RLO) at the Apapa Ports and access roads has said it has
successfully handed over its activities to the Lagos State
Government.

The former Executive Vice-Chairman of the PTT, Dr Kayode Opeifa,
who made this known in a statement issued on Thursday, said LASTMA,
the Lagos State traffic management team, supported by the Lagos
State Police Command would henceforth manage the Apapa traffic.

He said: “After weeks of careful planning, I am pleased to
announce that the presidential task team charged with the
responsibility of Restoration of Law and Order on Lagos roads
leading to Apapa and around Lagos Port and Maritime Logistics
Corridor has successfully handed over its activities to the LASG to
be supported by the Lagos State Police Command.”

According to him, the decision to exit from Apapa, followed the
relative normalcy on the axis with a massive reduction in
congestion and traffic, adding that a report on the activities of
the Team, chaired by the Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo had
earlier been presented to the presidency on October 7, 2020. Adding
that the handing over process which started on November 8, 2020,
was officially completed on December 29, 2020.

According to him, the Team successfully delivered on all the
five mandates given to it namely the restoration of law and order
on all roads leading to the Lagos Ports and within the Lagos Port
maritime logistic corridor, the removal of all stationary trucks on
Lagos roads leading to the Ports and the development and deployment
of an efficient and effective traffic management plan for the
entire port area traffic (including the cargo, fuel distribution
and business district traffic).

The other two mandates he added are; Development of a Traffic
Management Direction or policy, which incorporates Port Operations,
Incident rescue management, truck throughput and park management
and special purpose Apapa Port Area Traffic Management with strict
enforcement protocols.

He said that backed with strict enforcement, the system that the
PTT developed has the capacity to clean up any congestion within
two to six hours with the cooperation of major stakeholders and an
effective incidence and recovery management system by LASTMA and
LRU.

This he added is beside the development and deployment of a
Manual Call Up system pending the introduction of an electronic
system by the NPA. The system incorporated into the Traffic
management plan envisaged trucks are called from Nominated Parks
into Transit Parks (Lilypond and Tincan Island Transit Truck Parks)
for call up into the Ports.

Working with NPA and the NSC developed and deployed a workable
Empty Container Return Handling Policy to handle empty
containers.

A reduction in the cost of Port Cargo Haulage from the Ports to
different parts of the country and an Improved Port Cargo Trucks
haulage throughput/turnaround time.