Lagos blue rail line ready to carry 200,000 passengers daily: LAMATA
The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) has announced that the infrastructure for the first phase of the Lagos Rail Mass Transit (LMRT) Blue Line is completed and ready for operation.
The consultant, corporate communication of LAMATA, Kolawole Ojelabi, said this in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos.
Mr Ojelabi said the infrastructure completion fulfilled the promise made by the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
He explained that the LRMT Blue Line was one of the six rail lines and monorail prescribed for Lagos in the state’s Strategic Transport Master Plan (STMP).
According to him, the LRMT Blue Line is a 27-kilometre rail system from Marina to Okokomaiko.
Mr Ojelabi said construction had been divided into phases for ease of implementation and is expected to move more than 500,000 passengers when the entire line is completed.
“The first phase is a 13-kilometre stretch from Marina to Mile 2 and has five stations at Mile 2, Suru-Alaba, Orile Iganmu, National Theatre and Marina. It is expected to move about 200,000 passengers daily”, he added.
Mr Ojelabi said the rail system would be powered by electricity from an independent power plant to be purposely built for its operation.
The managing director of LAMATA, Abimbola Akinajo, said that the completion of the infrastructure for the first phase of the LRMT Blue Line was a testimonial of the importance of public transportation to Mr Sanwo-Olu’s THEMES agenda.
(NAN)
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