I am sure many of you have been thinking about moving away from Lekki. Those not fortunate enough to have a home before the 3rd roundabout, where no traffic seems to exist in the morning, would have been looking at the local listings to see if there was something you could afford beyond the noose of the 3rd roundabout, after which lane discipline seems to die and you often find six lanes on a three lane road.
Well if you could not afford to move, or decided to wait to see what @akinwunmiambode was doing in that road, I suspect you might be glad you did right now. It is early days yet, but clearly something interesting is happening on the Lekki Expressway. The snarling traffic that threatened to choke al l the fun out of the yuletide period, compounded by the added disruption of feverish roadworks, seems to melted away on the first working day of 2017, or so google maps would suggest.
I will reserve my full endorsement of the changes until the Ajah flyover is completed and schools are back, but I quietly suspect that we will see a significant change in the quality of life of Lagosians in that axis.
An acquaintance of mine mentioned one additional change that would also improve things significantly is too move the toll both from Admiralty way to Ikoyi on the 'new bridge' to the Ikoyi side to take the queue of cars waiting to pay their contribution of that road and unto the bridge.
Even more fundamental to sustaining the gains of this new infrastructure is a mass education of drivers in Lagos on how to use their new toys. I believe instructions signs literally have to be painted on the roads in English and Yoruba, with huge signs to support them to ensure drivers know which lanes to drive on, how to negotiate roundabouts and other road markings. If not I fear that Mr. Ambode's new gift to the Lekki Epe axis will soon be broken.
