Well well.... so we eventually put our paint-brush where our mouth is, and created the BRT lanes.... Hmmmm...... nice, huh? Or plain annoying?!


Why on earth would a country that uses the left hand drive car system, allot bus lanes on the suppossedly fastest lanes?


Oh... I know.... I know..... me, aunty, me.... me...... me.....! Pls call me!!!
O..k, Anu, tell me... "Well, the thing is - the commissioner for transport and the LASTMA chief recently went to the UK for an "owanbe" and discovered some white lines on the roads,...... and when they asked what the lines were for, some bored motorist simply yawned "for the buses", and true to our "follow follow" nature, they came back and hey presto, the lines appeared and have definitely come to stay!


50,000 per offender.


Well, we the non-bus drivers/illegal BRT lane users had better be careful cos the bus stops just might be shifted to the left side of the highways now... so as soon as you hear "o wa o!", just get ready to slam your brakes! Now, it is either we expect more people to run accross the express lanes, or we expect the buses to make swift, hold-up-causing manuavers from the extreme left to the extreme right lanes.


Prior to now, the congestion on Lagos roads was simply horrendous! Sometimes, motorist form up to 7 lanes on a 3-lane road.... all in a bid to beat traffic. Now, we all have to contend with 1 1/2 lane(s) less. If the government would not provide better road networks, better road structures and alternative transport options, then the yellow line on the road thingy will be a gross inconvenience.


Either way, the 50,000/offender vultures win.


By the way, thank God LASTMA guys werent supplied with guns o.... they would have killed more motorists in 2 years than the police have done since the 1914 amalgamation.


Anyway, so no more "turboing" for me on the 3rd mainland bridge. Oh man, I'm so accustomed to making a single trip - ceteris paribus - in 4 minutes 15 seconds. :-( Now it'll be a lot slower.


Miss me.
/Nunu.