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The Lagos State Government has announced that it would launch the suspension bridge linking Ikoyi and Lekki, on May 29th, 2013. The government, in an amazing first in the country, brings an architectural wonder commonly seen in movies and online, to people in the State. The bridge, known as Admiralty-Alexander Link Bridge, was started in 2008 by construction firm Julius Berger, and would be maintained by the firm for the next five years. The total length of the whole bridge is 1,358 km; the length of the main bridge is 466m. The length of Cable Bridge – or suspended section – is 170m; the height of Pyron is 87m from water level navigational requirement while the clearance average 9m above high water level. The width of the bridge – or carriageway – is 8m x 2; walkway of the bridge is 2.0m x 2; road works at Ikoyi End is 338.7m, while the road works at the Lekki End is 311.5m. The Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure in Lagos, Dr. Kadri Hamzat, said of the bridge, “In line with the policy of the present administration to ensure that all infrastructural facilities in the state are in conformity with the mega city status by the year 2015, the construction of Admiralty-Alexander (Lekki-Ikoyi) link bridge was conceived as a solution to the problem of the perennial traffic bottleneck on Lekki-Epe Road, particularly around the Elegushi Round About and Lekki Phase I.” “The bridge is designed to serve as a strategic by-pass and to reduce the travel time along Falomo Bridge, Alfred Rewane Road, Independence Bridge and Ahmadu Bello Way. The project will raise the property value along the corridor,” he said.