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Lagos Red Line, Opebi Link Bridge, 12 New Boats To Ease Traffic In 2024 – LASG
Lagos Red Line, Opebi Link Bridge, 12 new boats to ease traffic in 2024, Commissioner for Information and Strategy reveals.
Says that Lagos Red Line will reduce three-hour travel time by road from Iddo to Agbado to about 35 minutes.
Speaking further, he said the Water Transportation will receive a boost with the completion of about 15 new jetties.
Opebi-Mende-Ojota Link Bridge
The Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso has listed some iconic projects that will shape the face of commuting in Lagos State in the Year 2024.
According to him, some of the projects that will ease commuting across the State include the Red Line Rail, the Opebi-Ojota Link Bridge as well as the deployment of additional 12 ferries to the existing ones.
The Commissioner made this known on Thursday January 4th 2024 during an interview session with journalists representing different media houses in his office at the Secretariat, Alausa.
Omotoso said the Opebi Link Bridge will take traffic off the Ikorodu Road while the 27-kilometres Lagos Red Line will reduce three-hour travel time by road from Iddo to Agbado in Ogun State to about 35 minutes.
Speaking further, he said the Water Transportation will receive a boost with the completion of about 15 new jetties as well as the addition of 12 boats to the existing 21, noting that the Sanwo-Olu-led government inherited seven ferry boats at inception.
Responding to questions on the state of security, he said :
“The security architecture of the State is top-notch. Lagos State is the safest in the country. The traffic robbers who tried to breach it were arrested and paraded.
“The Lagos State Security Trust Fund was strengthened at the last security stakeholders meeting and more security strategies are being mapped out and reviewed regularly by operatives”.
