Says President ’ll commission Red Line Rail project before Dec 31
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday, flagged off commercial operations of the Blue Line Rail in the state. Sanwo-Olu, who arrived at the train station, implored the guests and other passengers to be orderly as well as obey the instructions to make the journey smooth.
At 9:07 a.m., the governor boarded one of the Blue Line Rail trains to signal the commencement of commercial operations on the state’s intra-city train service.
Six minutes later, 9:13 a.m., the train taxied with Sanwo-Olu, his deputy, Obafemi Hamzat; permanent secretaries, political leaders and some passengers on board the train. And 25 minutes after, the train was at the Mile 2 station despite stopping for two minutes each at the National Theatre, Orile and Alaba train stations.
Sanwo-Olu, who thanked President Bola Tinubu for putting in place the intermodal transportation master plan for the state, which included rail, water and road infrastructure, said with the completion and kick off of commercial operations of the Blue Line Rail, the Red Line Rail project would be commissioned by the President.
He said the commissioning would be done before the end of the year. He also disclosed that train stations and bridges built along with the Red Line rail project would be commissioned by the first week of October.
