Dr Kunle (1986) NISER; the problems of transportation, argued that “the wrong diagnosis of the identified problem has been the major cause”. He went further to state that investment on road transport infrastructural facilities in the major urban centres of Nigeria are heavily biased in favour of private transport especially cars. He finally concluded by saying that the first problem on a national transportation policy is basically road network (Daily Times, 1986).
According to Ofomata and Monanu (1975) the type of traffic on the roads is varied, but cars, buses and Mini buses are more in use for passenger traffic, while many wagons initially dominant both for goods and passengers, carry more of goods today. Olatunde in his comment! The Dilemma of commuter! Vehicles plying them are fast depreciating. Many lives have been lost and many have been maimed for life as a result. He concluded that inter and intra-urban transport within the country has never been as deplorable (Time international, 1988).
A study conducted by Reheem in Lagos found a drastic increase in the public transport demand with a simultaneous but accelerated decrease in transport supply (Daily Times, 1989). Professor Diejomaoh in his speech ‘Transport Problem’ said “that in the area of mass transportation, it is clear that as a nation we have got our priority wrong, what we need to subsidize and expand the public transportation (National newspaper, 1989).
A study conducted by Omotunde and Co. (1988) current transport problem could be traced firstly, to the collapse of city transport systems which were established some years ago. Secondly, the current economic situation with the introduction of the second-tier foreign exchange market, SFEM, and now FEM, under the structural adjustment programme, SAP. Dele noted that cars went beyond the reach of the average Nigeria and to complicate matters, the withdrawal of about eighty percent subsidy from petroleum and petroleum for commuters (Newswatch, 1988).
Etaghene in his comment ‘making our Roads safe’ stated that on the trail of oil boom of the 1970’s, which reshaped wealth distribution and taste in the society, were many devastating and long lasting side effects. He further stated that one of such was the influx of motor vehicles into the under-developed world and few networks of roads. He concluded that such unforeseen. Increase in the number of vehicles has changed the nations driving habit.
Oluduro (1985) in his study conducted in Lagos observed that despite of the enormous capital and human resources Nigerians had invested in the form of automobiles, highways, flyover bridges, parking facilities, traffic signals, traffic police services, type factories, oil industries, inadequate flow of traffic paralyzed the megalopolis which smelled awful and looked worse than they had twenty years before (Daily times, 1985).
Since researchers has carried out review on transportation. So many aspect of it has been review by researchers like:
Effects of economic activities on transport patterns; which was review by O’ connor (1965), Robert (1978), stuckey (1973) and Balade (1979) etc.
Historical development of transport; which was review by Adenyi (1983), Grava (1977), Fouracre and Manuder (1977), Olayemi (1979), fouracre and Jacob (1976) and Okoko (1990).
Transportation system of Nigeria; which was review by Monanu and Ofomata (1975), Robinson (1961), Onakoaiya (1979) Tunji (1989), Greenze and Rimmer (1981) and Useni (1986).
Problem of transportation; which was review by Dr Kunle (1986), Ofomata and Monanu (1975), Professor Diejomaoh (1989), Omotunde and Co. (1988) and Oluduro (1985).
Therefore, i Omagbemi Nelson Tosan deemed my fit to carry out this research on “Characteristics of inter-Urban Road Transportation in Enugu state (Enugu Urban as a Nodal Centre)” But little or no review has been done on this work.
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