The Delta State government, through its Warri, Uvwie and Environs Special Area Development Agency, has reminded motorists in Warri metropolis of the state that all unauthorized motor parks would be shut down by January 2024, “to restore the beauty of the oil city.”
The Director-General of WUEDA, Prince Godwin Ejinyere, affirmed this in Effurun on Christmas Day, after a drive around the city to observe some areas notorious for chaotic vehicular traffic.
The areas noted for notorious traffic logjam in the oil city are: Jakpa, Airport, and Enerhen junctions, Udu Road to express junction in Ovwian, Effurun roundabout, Tankers’ Park and express junction by Refinery Bridge, and Ugbuwangue junction along NPA expressway.
Others are PTI junction, DSC roundabout, Ugbomro, Otokutu and Mofor junctions along the DSC expressway, Okumagba Estate, Okere Market, Warri Main Market and Igbudu Market by Hausa quarters; DDPA, Ugborikoko, and Edjeba junctions along Airport Road; and Ekpan roundabout in Ekpan.
The WUEDA D-G said these areas have remained notorious for indiscriminate parking and loading of vehicles, especially tricycles, along the roads and at road junctions in the name of motor parks, stressing that they would be shut down to give the city a facelift in 2024.
Hon. Ejinyere also warned that broken down vehicles abandoned on the streets and roads will be impounded by the appropriate government agencies working in synergy with WUEDA, to bring sanity to the city.
He said owners of such vehicles would be made to face sanctions through the aid of a task force and a mobile court.
