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From Green And Purple Line To Blue And Red Line, Here Are Routes For The Six Lagos Rail Systems
From Green Line and Purple Line to Blue Line and Red Line, here are routes for the Six Lagos Rail Systems.
The six rail systems are differentiated by colours : Green line, Purple line, Yellow line, Orange line, Blue line and Red line.
The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), through Jubril Gawat, has outlined the routes and the projected daily capacity for the six (6) rail systems designed to ease the transportation challenges in Lagos State.
Each of the six rail systems will be managed by LAMATA, an agency under the Ministry of Transportation created by an Act signed into law on January 13, 2002 by the then Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
According to LAMATA, the urban transport implementation agency of the state, the six rail systems that are differentiated by colours are : Green line, Purple line, Yellow line, Orange line, Blue line and Red line.
BLUE LINE :
The 27-kilometre rail line from Okokomaiko to Marina. The first phase, already commissioned, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has kick-started commercial operations, it runs from Mile 2 to Marina with stop-overs at National Theatre, Iganmu, Alaba, Mile 2.
RED LINE :
A 37km rail line that will move from Ebute Metta (Oyingbo) to Agbado, cutting across so many major passenger routes like Agege, Mushin, Yaba, Oshodi, Jibowu and others
GREEN LINE :
A 71-kilometre rail designed to run through Marina, Victoria Island, Lekki Phase 1, Ajah, Lekki 2, Ogombo, Elepetu, Eluju, Lekki Airport and Lekki Free Trade Zone and projected to carry over 500,000 passengers per day at starting, rising to over a million in 2031.
PURPLE LINE :
54-kilometre rail designed to run through Redemption Camp, Mowe, Long Bridge, Isheri, Toll Gate, Omole, Ogba, Agege, Iyana Ipaja, Isheri Osun, Igando, Iba, Estate, LASU, Okokomaiko and Ojo.
YELLOW LINE :
A 34km rail system designed to traverse Otta, Meran, Alimosho, Ipaja, Isheri Osun, Ejigbo, Mafoluku, Isolo, Surulere and the National Theatre, with a projected daily capacity of 238,000 passengers, rising to 486,000 in few years.
ORANGE LINE:
This 48km line is designed to run through Ikeja, Alausa, Magodo, Mile 12, Irawo, Itolowo, Majidun Awori, Majidun Ogolonto, Agric Ikorodu, Alapadi, Maya, Eligana, Isiwu, Ibere, Imota and Agbowa in Ikorodu.
