Percy Onyeka
In order to officially open the Lagos Red Line rail, President Bola Tinubu has traveled to Lagos State.
When he opened the Lagos Rail Mass Transit Red Line Ikeja Overpass in December 2023, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu made a pledge that Tinubu would present the rail by the end of the first quarter of 2024.
When the Red Line rail is operational, it will carry over 500,000 passengers per day, he continued.
Before the Red Line’s passenger operations begin, the safety infrastructure must be completed and formally commissioned. Our esteemed President, His Excellency, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, will do this in the first quarter of 2019.
“In the last four and a half years of our administration, we have prioritised the implementation of our integrated transportation system under the traffic management and transportation pillar of the T.H.E.M.E.S.+ agenda. As a result, we have delivered life-enhancing transport infrastructures that are making life easier for the average Lagosian.
“The LRMT Red Line rail system, the first phase of which we project will move more than 500,000 passengers daily, stretches over a distance of 27 kilometres from Agbado to Oyingbo, with eight stations at Agbado, Iju, Agege, Ikeja, Oshodi, Mushin, Yaba, and terminates at Oyingbo,” Sanwo-Olu said.
Details later…
