Road users agonize over pitable Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway as raining season approaches.

thousands of drivers who ply the road regularly would want the government to take immediate action to ameliorate. 

The escalating cost of accommodation in Lagos State has seen thousands of residents relocate to neigbouring Ogun communities of Ota and Ifo in the last few decades even as many of these people still have to shuttle between both states on almost daily basis to go to Lagos to earn their living. 

But the deplorable state of this most important road has made life more difficult for them with many resorting to the option of staying back in their places of work only to return home at the weekends.

Sunday Sun correspondent who monitored the state of the road  last week reports that ditches, potholes and craters of various magnitudes dotted the expressway thereby making travelling on it a difficult task even as most motorists now resort to making detours, using some alternative inner roads where they are available. 

But where there is none, some drivers would rather resort to taking the dangerous option of driving against traffic in attempts to evade the bad portions of the road. Worst hit portions of this ever-busy road include Abule-Egba U-turn-Toll gate axis of the road, Onihale-Ifo axis, Ewkoro- Wasimi axis, among others.

The harrowing experience of road users plying this road is better imagined than experienced. 

Yusuf Sanyaolu, an automobile mechanic, who lives at Pakoto, Ifo, but has his workshop at Ipaja area of Lagos, said that he goes home only for the weekends and returns to his workshop every Tuesday as a way of escaping the daily agonizing experience of having to commute between Ifo and Lagos.

Mrs Folashade Fadairo runs a provision store at Alakuko. And since she relocated to Onihale in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, travelling between her residence in Ogun State and business outlet in Lagos has been part of her daily routine. 

She, however, confessed that making the trips daily is tiresome especially now that several portions of the road are becoming almost impassable. 

Besides, having to make fewer trips, commercial vehicle drivers plying the route said that the condition of the road is also responsible for their constant visits to mechanic workshops as their vehicles break down often. 

A commercial bus driver who identified himself as Tajudeen Olawoyin said that the poor state of the road has grounded some buses plying the route.