The metropolitan nature of Lagos, with its ever-increasing population, has always had the challenge of traffic. Rural-urban migration, coupled with high vehicular density
Successive governments in Lagos have severally tried to unlock the perennial traffic congestion bedeviling the State, coming up with various ways of addressing the challenge. From “Odd and Even Car Rotation policy” in the 1970s, the provision of public transport vehicles in the mode of mini and medium sized mass transit buses, to the introduction of traffic managers like Lagos State Traffic Management Authority officials (LASTMA) to man the traffic and the provision of traffic signal-lights to effectively control the flow of traffic on the roads. Though the strategies put in place at different periods had marginal improvement of the situation, none of these interventions appeared to fully resolve the hydra-headed challenge of congestion in the State.
In early 2012, the government, after reflecting on the huge impact such congestions is having on the state, came to the conclusion that congestion and heavy traffic on Lagos roads must be eliminated.
The then Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) thus approved that a dedicated traffic radio be established to monitor and report traffic and improve safety matters in Lagos state. This is what led to the birth of Lagos Traffic Radio. The Station was commissioned on the 29th of May, 2012.