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3rd Mainland Bridge: ‘Don’t toy with 350,000 motorists’ lives’ – Senator Ashafa

By on February 11, 2013

Senator Gbenga Ashafa yesterday called on the Federal Government not to risk the lives of about 350, 000 Lagosians that use the nation’s longest bridge, the Third Mainland Bridge daily.

He said investigation recently carried out by foreign experts revealed that a greater part of the underneath of the bridge was on the verge of collapse.

Briefing journalists in Lagos on the findings of foreign underwater survey experts, Ashafa, who is representing the Lagos East senatorial district, charged the Federal Government to immediately carry out similar investigation with a view to fixing the decaying underwater metal casing, housing the concrete pile and on which the bridge stands.

His words: “There had been incessant complaints of shifting and unusual vibrations on the bridge by commuters plying the bridge for quite some time.

“A report produced by a company experienced in underwater surveys indicated that the underwater metal casing, housing the concrete piles on which the bridge stands have decayed and this accounts for the vibration experienced in some portions of the bridge.

“Prof. JHT Kim, Head of the Concrete Structural Engineering Laboratory, Yousei University, Seoul Korea, came on research in December 2012 and conducted an underwater examination of the structures holding the bridge and reported that the damages to the structure was worse than what he had been briefed.

Ashafa further noted that the professor’s report indicated that there was progressive steel caisson deterioration in about 1, 318 foundation piles and that there was extensive reinforcement bar deterioration in eight piles.

According to him, the implication is that Adeniji Adele, Adekunle and Oworonshoki ends of the bridge could collapse and therefore require comprehensive works to be carried out on the foundation immediately.

 

[National Mirror]

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