Traffic Lights: Motorists Task RSG On Reactivation

A cross section of motor
ists in Port Harcourt and its environs have appealed to the Rivers State Governor,Chief Nyesom Wike to help reactivate the traffic lights in the city.
The motorists who barred their minds in an interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt said the traffic lights would add colour and reduce gridlock at most junctions in the city.
According to them, the traffic lights would further add pep to the rehabilitated road networks in and around the city.
Chief Adaye Johnbull said the rehabilitation of the traffic lights on the Port Harcourt roads is a good development that would further give the present administration of Governor Nyesom Wike ‘kudos’ with his massive rehabilitation of roads in Rivers State.
Johnbull recalled that when the traffic lights were working, years back, they helped reduce traffic gridlock at most junctions as well as add colour and beauty to the city.
Another motorist, Chimezie Okorie said that with traffic lights at most junctions of the state, it would check criminal activities as well as reduce road crash.
According to him, the lights would complement the work of traffic police officers on duty, stressing that it would be a welcomed development if they are reactivated soonest.
Ngozi Mathias also said that the reactivation of the traffic lights in Port Harcourt would reduce accident and free flow of traffic, as well as make some motorists to obey traffic rules and regulations at most junctions in the state, and appealed to the state government to urgently consider the rehabilitation of traffic lights which were vandalized during the previous administration.
Olorunfemi Ajayi, in his view said, “it will be a good thing for the government to reactivate the traffic lights because it will make the drivers obey traffic rules as CCTV cameras could also be fixed to identify offenders and bring them to book in order to serve as deterrent to others”.

Collins Barasimeye