Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu mentioned the development of the long-awaited 37km Fourth Mainland Bridge will start by the top of March or April.
Sanwo-Olu acknowledged this on Thursday, Jan. 25, in an handle on the Lagos West Senatorial District City Corridor Assembly held on the Balmoral Conference Centre, Sheraton, Ikeja, the state capital.
The governor mentioned, “We’ve finished intensive work on the bridge however we’re on the crossroads of the place to get actual financing for that sort of challenge we have to be very inventive however thank God that we have now reached the final level of the development.
“Our dedication is that inside this primary quarter, which means that by the top of March or April, we should always break grounds to start out the development of the Fourth Mainland Bridge.
“It will be inbuilt phases; part one will likely be from the Junction at Abraham Adesanya all the way in which to the Waterfront that we have now at Badore.
“I’m utilizing this chance to say that we have now finished intensive examine, so we can not get a brand new street with out having to do some little bit of discomfort however we are going to guarantee that we are going to compensate everyone that their properties or companies will likely be disturbed by this development. So, it’s going to be alongside the prevailing corridors and some buildings will likely be touched.”
The governor mentioned each tenants and landlords of the buildings to be affected can be duly compensated.
He mentioned the following part can be from the Waterfront in Ado to Ibeshe in Ikorodu and the third part can be from Ibeshe to Ita-Elewa junction and later to the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.