Lagos Blue Rail Line Now Operational – LAMATA

• transporting 200,000 passengers every day

The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority stated that the infrastructure for the first phase of the Lagos Rail Mass Transit Blue Line has been finished and is ready for use.

Mr Kolawole Ojelabi, LAMATA’s Consultant, Corporate Communications, stated this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Lagos.

Ojelabi stated that the infrastructural completion fulfilled the commitment made by Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
He claimed that Sanwo-Olu stated that the project will be finished in the fourth quarter of 2022, ahead of the start of passenger operations in the first quarter of 2023.

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.

According to him, the LRMT Blue Line is a 27-kilometer rail system from Marina to Okokomaiko.
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 was completed.

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“Governor Sanwo-Olu had, while campaigning for the office of Governor, promised to complete the infrastructure for the first phase of the LRMT Blue Line and bring it to passenger operation.

“The first phase is a 13-kilometer 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.

Ojelabi said the rail system would be powered by electricity from an independent power plant to be purposely built for its operations.

The Managing Director of LAMATA, Mrs Abimbola Akinajo, said the completion of the infrastructure for the first phase of the LRMT Blue Line was a testimonial of the importance of public transportation to Gov. Sanwo-Olu’s THEMES agenda.

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