Ibadan to get trailer park

The Governor of Oyo State, Mr. Seyi Makinde, has approved a 250-truck capacity parking space in Ibadan to ensure free flow of human and vehicular movements within the state.

The park, which is sited at Sanyo in Ibadan, would reduce the level of road carnage caused by indiscriminate parking of haulage trucks by the highways in Ibadan metropolis.

The Executive Chairman, Oyo State Traffic Management Agency (OYRTMA), Dr. Akin Fagbemi, said this at the weekend, when men and officers of the Agency visited the popular Ibadan toll gate usually characterised by haphazard parking of heavy duty trailers.

The governor’s approval, Fagbemi said, was in a bid to enthrone sanity and discourage disorderly and dangerous parking habit rampant among motorists at the toll gate and other road corridors across the state.

Addressing the Chairman and members of NUPENG and other heavy duty vehicle operators at the Toll Gate, Fagbemi expressed the will of the Seyi Makinde-led administration to have safe highways across the state.