Lagos blue, red rail lines ‘ready December 2022’

25 Feb Lagos blue, red rail lines ‘ready December 2022’

The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) has said the Lagos Blue and Red rail lines will be operational by December 2022.

The General Manager of the agency, Abimbola Akinajo, gave the assurance during a visit by the officials of the Office of Transformation, Creativity and innovation, (Office of Head of Service) on Wednesday, in Lagos.

She said that LAMATA was working assiduously to ensure the delivery of the rail lines to passenger operation by December 2022.

“These two lines will change the transport landscape of Lagos when operational. We have a transport master plan which speaks to the vision of Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on transportation,” she said.

“We have six rail lines and one monorail, 14 Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridors, over 20 water routes and we are sure that when all of these are properly harnessed, Lagos will join the league of cities with an efficient transport system.”

“We have advertised four other rail lines for the private sector to invest. We are working on the private sector so they could bring in about 1,500 high capacity buses by 2022.

“We would be launching our First Mile Last Mile scheme very soon. We are working on the construction of two interchanges at Mile 2 and CMS. We want to ensure that Lagosians travel in comfort.”

The general manager affirmed that it was working toward “a connected Lagos” with the various transport projects implemented through it by the state government.

She explained that the vision of an intermodal integrated transport system was meant to create choices for the Lagos commuters without stress.