Tankers strains up on a main street.
The Federal Ministry of Transport would inaugurate 10 Truck Transit Parks (TTP) throughout the nation in 2019 to scale back truck accidents.
This was disclosed by Anthonia Ekpa, Director of Road Transport and Mass Transit Administration on the ministry.
Ekpa disclosed this at a information convention on the sidelines of the Annual General Meeting of the Sub-Sahara Africa Transport Policy Programme (SSATP) held in Abuja.
As acknowledged by her, for presidency to resolve the difficulty of trucking, we're working to make sure that vans are put in a specific location referred to as the transit parks.
She acknowledged that the initiative will cut back the variety of accidents involving vans, as drivers of articulated autos could have a place to relaxation correctly earlier than coming into the street.
The director acknowledged that aside from accidents that happen as a result of tiredness, many truck drivers go in opposition to the regulation to convey sure merchandise at incorrect hours.
He acknowledged that extra enforcement is required to deal with the reckless of truck drivers.
Ekpa defined that the imaginative and prescient is to construct transit parks in all of the 36 states of the federation, beginning with one in every of the six geo-political zone and areas that vans normally transit from like, Lagos, Lokoja and so forth.
She acknowledged that the Federal Government was partnering with state authorities and personal buyers to construct the parks.
She stated the technique to handle the menace of truck congestion on the seaports and highways would assist in transferring agricultural commodities and stable mineral assets from the hinterland to different ports in addition to haulage.
As acknowledged by her, the assembly with the theme focus “Africa’s rapid urbanization and the response to urban mobility in the digital era” is being attended by transport ministers, administrators and different stakeholders in Africa international locations to brainstorm on the way in which ahead on city transports and mobilities.