Lagos To Increase Trips On Electrified Blue Line

 

The Lagos Metropolitan Transport Authority (LAMATA) has reportedly concluded plans to increase trips on the Blue Line 13-kilometre rail corridor from 54 to 76 trips before the end of 2023.

LAMATA Managing Director, Abimbola Akinajo, made this known at a briefing in Lagos, organised in commemoration of the agency’s 20 years of operations.

The agency’s boss while giving timelines for the completion of the second phase of the Blue Line and the commencement of operation on the Red Line, said the second phase of the Blue Line Rail project, from Mile 2 to Okoko, which construction has started, will be completed in 2027.

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 The agency is targeting the second quarter of 2024 for the commencement of commercial operation on the Red Line corridor, with infrastructure work expected to be completed December 2023.

 The Red Line rail a 37 Kilometer rail route proposed to run from Agbado to Marina, has 13 stations at Agbado, Iju, Agege, Ikeja, MMIA International, MMIA Domestic, Oshodi, Mushin, Yaba, Ebute meta, Iddo, Ebute Ero and Marina.

 LAMATA also said no fewer than 1,000 electric buses (EBs) would be deployed on the roads in the next 24 months, an effort aimed at exploring alternative fuel for urban mobility and cutting greenhouse emissions.