Road Taskforce To Check Heavy Duty Vehicles

In a bid to ensure free flow of traffic in Port Harcourt metropolis the Rivers State Government has inaugurated a taskforce to check the movement of heavy duty vehicles on the roads from late hours of the morning to late hours of the evening.

The State Commissioner for Transport, Deacon Dagogo Fubara who stated this in an interview in Port Harcourt said the taskforce was constituted to re-enforce the existing law that bans heavy duty vehicles from plying the major roads in Port Harcourt during daytime.

He said the law had been enacted as part of the measures to ease traffic in the capital city and its environs during the last administration but regretted that the government was slack to enforce the law.

The commissioner observed that though the massive road rehabilitations and constructions by the present administration had reduced gridlock to a large extent there was need to constitute a taskforce to check the movement of heavy duty vehicles in the metropolis during the restricted hours.

Deacon Fubara further added that the on-going installation of traffic and street lights would soon be completed and commissioned by the state Governor, to help ease traffic in the state.