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Here Are Facts And All You Need To Know About The New Lagos Rail Mass Transit
On Thursday, the governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu performed the groundbreaking ceremony and commencement of Civil Works for the Lagos Rail Mass Transit (LRMT) Red Line Project. This is the second phase of the railway construction that belongs to the state government in the state.
The governor while giving his speech said, “Some of the characteristics of the Red Line is its integration with the Ikeja Bus Terminal, Oshodi – Abule-Egba BRT, the future Orange Line, which goes from Ikeja to Agbowa, and the General Aviation Terminal One of the MM Airport through a skywalk”
The first phase which runs from Mile 2 to Marina, CMS has been under construction for over 20 years. With the commencement of the second phase, it is expected that the railway will link those at the Mainland side of the state to the Island side. Trust us at AutoReportNG to go out of our way to analyse and bring you facts from figures
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Here are some facts and what to expect of the Lagos Rail Mass Transit (LRMT) Red Line Project.
– LRMT is a span of 37km rail route from Marina to Agbado and it will be implemented in phases. The first phase will be from Oyingbo to Agbado and it will share tracks with NRC on the Lagos Ibadan Rail route.
– On Phase 1 completion, It is expected to run 37 trips daily which is about 450,000 passengers Daily, The NRC will also run a maximum of 16hours a day between Lagos and Ibadan for the Lagos-Ibadan railway route.
– To ensure Safety for Lagosians, There are 10 vehicular overpasses and pedestrian bridges proposed for this rail line to separate vehicular & pedestrian movements from train movements.
– Lagos State will construct four vehicular overpasses and pedestrian bridges in Mushin, Ikeja, Yaba and Oyingbo.
– FG would construct 5 vehicular overpasses & pedestrian bridges at Jibowu, Ilupeju, Shogunle, Jonathan Coker and Agbado.
– The State has evaluated all properties affected including Landlords and tenants total of 263 properties have been identified and Mr Governor presented their cheques to them.
– The Red Line Rail will cut down travel time and in turn improve the productive capacity of the economy and also ensure safety from any form of accident and danger.
– The Completion time for the Red Line would be the fourth Quarter of 2022 together with the Ongoing Blue Line Rail.
– The BLUE LINE (Okoko to Marina) Rail is currently at 78% Civil Works and would be completed by the fourth Quarter of 2022.
– The implementation of the Red Line project has become very elevated because of the financing package put in place for it by the State Government through the Central Bank Nigeria (CBN) Differentiated Cash Reserve Requirement (DCRR) programme.
– Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu says work is going on simultaneously on bringing the first phase of our Blue Line to passenger operation, to be in operation by the fourth quarter of 2022.
Here are more prototype for Lagos Rail Mass Transit as obtained by AutoReportNG
