Fashola: Fostering A Motorised Legacy
Lagos is the centre of excellence, the theory goes. For decades people have come to the bustling commercial and economic capital to live and work, moving out again when they retire. With this polarised nature of life in Lagos, time was a constraint. So Lagosians had but one option – a fast life on a lane bedevilled with avoidable traffic gridlocks alongside substandard and dilapidated urban transport infrastructure. In time, the rise of Abuja as the nation’s administrative capital, with its allure of superhighways and megacity concept, triggered off an unprecedented drift to the centre of unity as Abuja continues to beckon to anyone sick and tired of the Molues and bad roads of Lagos. But a startling paradigm shift brought the change that slowed the conveyor belt. Lagos started inching further up the motorisation ladder since 2007 as the visionary Governor, His Excellency Babatunde Raji Fashola, came into office and took on the issue of urban mass transit head on with his te