Musings Of A Customer Service Intern

Traffic!

There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.
Will Rogers

You can't stay in Lagos and not have experienced traffic. Its like rain, inevitable, except you own a helicopter. If not, welcome to Lagos, where a 30 minutes journey takes about 2 hours to complete while seating in a bus that was created to transport anything but humans comfortably.

One of the best thing after getting a 'good' job in Lagos, is getting your own car or been able to afford Uber. If not, you will have to join the masses in vrying for the yellow and black buses (YnB) or the BRT buses but those are special buses. These buses have designated bus stops and routes they take, however it doesn't reach the smaller routes like the YnB buses.

Before the pandemic, the YnB conductor try as much as possible to jam in as much people into the bus as unbelievably possible. Ever seen a can of Sardine? Well, just imagine the fish as people then add one more.

Thankfully, since social distancing was enforced, this has reduced especially in the mornings when the Federal Road Safety Corps will be out to catch offenders and fine them but at night, they operate at free will, squeezing us together that you even forget that social distancing exist.

As much as one try to argue it was wrong, you will pressured into giving in or alight from the bus. I, knowing that I only have a fixed amount for transport just have to keep quiet and tag my face mask higher.

I really hope someday soon all this will change because it's annoying, heartbreaking and seriously stressful.