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Red Line Rail Is 95% Ready, To Be Commissioned By Pres. Tinubu Before The End Of 2023 – Sanwo-Olu
Lagos Red Line Rail is 95% ready, To Be commissioned by President Tinubu before the end of 2023 – Gov Sanwo-Olu.
Sanwo-Olu made this known on during the flag off of commercial operations of the first phase of the Blue Line (Marina – Mile 2).
Sanwo-Olu commends Tinubu for putting in place the transportation master plan while he was the Governor of Lagos State.
Nigerian President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is expected to commission the Red Line Rail Mass Transit (RLMT) project before the end of this year, according to Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Sanwo-Olu made this known on Monday during the flag off of commercial operations of the first phase of the Lagos Rail Mass Transit (LRMT) Blue Line (Marina – Mile 2).
The Governor, who took part in the inaugural ride, served as the Head of the Train Operations during the first commercial operations of the Blue Line rail from the Marina Station to Mile 2.
Speaking to journalists at the Marina Station, Sanwo-Olu commended President Bola Tinubu for putting in place the transportation master plan while he was the Governor of Lagos State.
He said:
“I think it is important for us to acknowledge the great work that our President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the first Governor of Lagos State in the current dispensation did by starting the vision of the Lagos State Urban Mass Transportation System with the creation of LAMATA.
“It was from that master plan that we have a train infrastructure, the road master plan infrastructure, and all other deliverables that we are seeing today. So we need to thank him and we need to acknowledge all the great works he has done in Lagos. God will give him the opportunity to also do it bigger for Nigeria.
On the nearly Red Line Rail project, Sanwo-Olu said :
“The Red Line currently is about 95-96 percent and if it doesn’t get to 100 percent, we won’t commission it. But we are certain that before the end of the year, we will also commission the Red Line.
“By the end of this month or the first week in October, we will start commissioning the bridges – Ikeja Along Bridge, Yaba Bridge, Ebute-Metta Bridge, Mushin Bridge, Ayoola Coker and all the other bridges.
“We will start opening the bridges for vehicular movements, then we will start the commissioning of the various stations – from Oyingbo Station to Yaba to Mushin, Ikeja to Agege and to Iju.
“We will commission all the stations, and then we will have a final movement, which I hope Mr. President will come to help us to do before the end of the year.”
