In an update on Monday, the Managing Director of Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, Mrs. Abimbola Akinajo, said the agency was “confident and comfortable that we will meet the deadline that Mr. Governor has given us.”
Akinajo said the tracks for the rail system were 95 per cent completed while the eight train stations being built as part of the Red Line infrastructure were “literally completed.”
“We are implementing eight stations and that is all the way from Agbado. We have a station at Agbado, we have a station in Iju, we have a station in Agege, we have a station in Ikeja, we have a station in Mushin, we have a station in Oshodi, Oyingbo and Yaba. Now, all those stations as a point of update are literally completed. We have most of them, except Yaba which is 99.9 per cent completed.
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The LAMATA MD added that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu had procured two sets of trains for the Red Line operations, in her statement, “So, we’re very confident that it will be completed by the first quarter of 2024.
So, we expect that to start come the beginning of March o the middle of March and that will allow us to begin to test and also to work the interfaces between NRC.”
It was also reported that Sanwo-Olu had said that President Bola Tinubu would unveil the first phase of the Lagos Red Line rail in the first quarter of 2024.
