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Don’t Cross Electrified Blue Rail Tracks, LASG Warns Residents Ahead Of Start Of Operation On Sept 4th
Don’t cross electrified Blue Rail Track, Lagos warns residents ahead of start of operation on Monday Sept 4th.
Instead, LASG/LAMATA urge residents to use the overhead bridges to cross from one side to the other.
The Lagos State Government has again warned residents to avoid crossing the electrified tracks of the Blue Rail line ahead of commencement of full commercial operations on Monday (tomorrow) September 4th.
The Chief Press Secretary, Mr Gboyega Akosile, who gave the warning on his official X handle on Saturday, urged residents to use the overhead bridges provided by the government.
“Dear Lagosians, please be reminded as we kick off the commercial operations of the Lagos Blue Line Rail transport on Monday, that the rail line is electrified.
“Don’t cross the rail lines because it is dangerous. Use the overhead bridges that have been provided by the government. Thank you,” he wrote.
Dear Lagosians, please be reminded as we kick off the commercial operations of the Lagos Blue Line Rail transport on Monday, that the rail line is electrified. Don’t cross the rail lines because it is dangerous. Use the overhead bridges that have provided by Govt. Thank you. pic.twitter.com/U9t0cRIIhs
— Gboyega Akosile (@gboyegaakosile) September 2, 2023
In a video that accompany Akosile’s post, the General Manager of Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Abimbola Akinajo, also urged residents to use the overhead bridges to cross from one side to the other.
She said :
“With regards to the operations of the Blue Line in particular, we all know that we have publicized that the Blue Line is going to be an electrified rail system. If you want to cross from one side to the other, you must use the overhead bridges.
“This is a necessity for all of us to understand and we have fenced all along the alignment for the Blue Line to ensure that people do not cross it. But what we see time and again is that people go there and they cut the fences and they run across.
“We have bothered to put pedestrian crossings; there is access for people with physical challenges, and therefore we have no reason to cross the track.”
