Why we bar trucks from flyovers: Adamawa govt allays public safety concern

Against nationalist interest astir anticipation of mediocre prime of flyovers successful the capital, Yola, the Adamawa State Government says it chose to barroom dense trucks from flyovers to forestall accidents.

The State Commissioner of Works, Mohammed Suleiman, told inquisitive journalists who raised the issue, stating that dense trucks were not barred from flyovers due to the fact that the flyovers could not endure dense weight.

The commissioner told the journalists who brought up the substance during a moving sojourn to his bureau that isolated from regularisation of usage of flyovers being a planetary information standard, capable accidents astir flyovers person been experienced successful the authorities to warrant specified a information measure.

The Jimeta axis of the Yola superior metropolis has 5 flyover bridges, each attack constituent of which determination is simply a obstruction that allows lone low-built light-weight vehicles, intelligibly disallowing trucks and different heavy-duty vehicles.

The barricades person agelong got the nationalist talking, the insinuation being that trucks were being prevented from mounting the flyovers due to the fact that the flyovers were excessively anemic to carnivore the trucks.

Countering the allegation and stressing that tallness barriers are not enactment up astir the flyovers due to the fact that the decks cannot transportation the load, the commissioner of works gave instances of articulated trucks that climbed flyovers afloat loaded, broke down astatine mid-span, and past rolled backmost into oncoming postulation oregon sat determination connected the flyover.

"In galore cases, specified ample vehicles were kno...