Lagos is officially the most congested capital city in Nigeria, according to the latest workers commuting survey conducted by V-Park Management Solutions Limited, the first real professional parking company established in the country whose management are highly trained professionals with international recognition achieved via second-to-none overseas performance in parking management field. This survey was conducted among different groups of workers consisting of 10 commuters that were randomly selected in each of the 36 states in Nigeria.
The survey, which was conducted last month and released just 2 months after the official launch of a mobile electronic device called “Auto Inspector” in Ikeja, Lagos. This device is to check whether vehicles have valid documents without engaging in manual stop and check of vehicles’ papers.
The survey, which was conducted last month and released just 2 months after the official launch of a mobile electronic device called “Auto Inspector” in Ikeja, Lagos. This device is to check whether vehicles have valid documents without engaging in manual stop and check of vehicles’ papers.
Auto Inspector, is the first of its kind in Nigeria and its projected to help to reduce traffic gridlock on Lagos’ highways occasioned by police stop and check of vehicles’ documents. With the device, stolen vehicles can also be easily identified as the device could tell the name of the owners of such vehicles as well as the history of such vehicles.
We found that professionals working in Lagos still spend an average 3 hours and 55 minutes each day in total commuting time to and from their place of work for a 15km journey, the highest figure in Africa.
The journey times are particularly long for those commuting to Lagos from neighbouring Abeokuta, Ibadan, etc. It was noted that, much of the journey delays are caused by slow-moving bumper-to-bumper traffic due to bad roads, lack of effective transportation policy, police roads block encroachments, insufficient standard mass transit buses, poor roads maintenance, in-effective traffic enforcement activities and lack of on-street parking regulations. Many motorists reported high levels of stress and fatigue as a result.
According to V-Park survey, many employers in Lagos are becoming increasingly concerned at the impact of traffic-related stress and exhaustion on the productivity of their staff.
Abuja came second in the traffic rankings, with total daily commute time at 3 hours and 40 minutes on average.
Jos, by contrast, saw the lowest reported commute time, with employees spending on average just 1hour 46 minutes each day commuting.
The journey times are particularly long for those commuting to Lagos from neighbouring Abeokuta, Ibadan, etc. It was noted that, much of the journey delays are caused by slow-moving bumper-to-bumper traffic due to bad roads, lack of effective transportation policy, police roads block encroachments, insufficient standard mass transit buses, poor roads maintenance, in-effective traffic enforcement activities and lack of on-street parking regulations. Many motorists reported high levels of stress and fatigue as a result.
According to V-Park survey, many employers in Lagos are becoming increasingly concerned at the impact of traffic-related stress and exhaustion on the productivity of their staff.
Abuja came second in the traffic rankings, with total daily commute time at 3 hours and 40 minutes on average.
Jos, by contrast, saw the lowest reported commute time, with employees spending on average just 1hour 46 minutes each day commuting.
Aware of the traffic problem, the Lagos state government is taking drastic measures to reduce congestion by discouraging unnecessary long-hours car driving and encouraging people to use other modes of transportation schemes like park and ride facility in which they planned to build more in strategic areas of the state where traffic and parking challenges are high.
Another measures currently been considered by most states government in Nigeria, is introduction of parking enforcement activities that would be back by appropriate parking regulations in support of its already established traffic management initiatives. Lagos state as an exception is also building a modern urban rail system, the City Metro, expected to come into service in early 2013.
Please watch out for our next survey result on the same subject in February 2012
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