The regulator of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) scheme; Lagos Metropolitan Transport Authority (LAMATA), has unveiled plan to extend the service to the heavily congested Oshodi-Iyana Ipaja-Abule-Egba route.

To facilitate smooth operation of the scheme on the route, LAMATA is awarding a contract to redesign the road with two BRT lanes to run in the middle, starting from Abule-Egba towards Oshodi. The service lanes of the expressway are also to be repaired and made more motorable.

This, according Abiodun Dabiri, managing director of LAMATA, would be accomplished within the next 20 months and would reduce travel time along the route by at least 40 percent.

Dabiri, who addressed stakeholders at a sensitisation meeting, last week, said the work would entail an uninterrupted median BRT service, 11 pedestrian bridges, one bus depot and two bus terminals to be located at Iyana Ipaja and Abule-Egba.

According to him, the BRT system is being extended to that axis to facilitate easy access of persons and businesses to the Central Business Districts (CBDs) in Ikeja, Marina, Ikoyi and Victoria Island and to drastically reduce the travel time along that corridor from about one hour-thirty minutes to a maximum of 45 minutes.

Speaking further on why the BRT service was being introduced on the route, Dabiri said “the Oshodi-Abule Egba corridor is one of the busiest bus corridors in West Africa, with over 5,500 buses moving passengers per day. It is a critical link for millions of people living in Alimosho, Egbeda, Iyana-Ipaja, Ijaiye, up to Tollgate into Sango Ota in Ogun State.”

He noted that the route was also strategic because Oshodi, with the proposed transport interchange project, was emerging the transport hub in Lagos. The LAMATA MD appealed for the cooperation of property owners, traders, transporters, traffic managers, residents and security agencies, all of whom he said were critical in actualising the plan.

Olarenjawu Elegushi, the Lagos State acting commissioner for transport, explained the vision of the government with respect to public transportation, saying it was to create convenience for the people. “What we are doing along the Abule Egba axis is in line with the overall plan of the government to change the face of public transportation system in Lagos,” said Elegushi.

Source: https://www.businessdayonline.com/lamata-unveils-plan-brt-oshodi-abule-egba-route/

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Hmmm... While this is a good idea, please proper construction planning and timing should be put in place. We don't have to suffer for other people's ineptitude o ehn e!

Good for the state. Ajimobi wetin dey happen na!

Eko onibaje

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Ambo aati de...

Nice one.... Ambode is really working. Hope he extends it to other routes too

Buhari

I no know wetin Ajimobi dey do o. No economical or infrastructural update so far. Oga o

Ambode is really working.welcome development

many houses ready to go again,,,

5000 wetin?

Wonderful development.

Best ever Lagos government. Eko oni baje ooo

Let them sha finish fast...


To be curving from U-Turn to Awori to Ekoro to Ile-ipo to Ikeja haff tire me

O'boy. More demolition. It is well sha. Lagos is one hell of a giant construction site/state.

priceaction:
many houses ready to go again,,,

If someone is gullible to buy land within the prescribed setbacks of an expressway, that person shouldn't complain when his property is demolished.

I pity properties owner on that route, those in Abule Egba have gotten their own share. The expansion of the road will also aid govt decision to relocate Computer Village to Katangowa.

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I hope the ogun state guy sees the potential in this and starts work on his own end

Beautiful development. The traffic on that Oshodi-Sango expressway is no child's play.

Nice development

Surpassing his predecessors achievement is ultimate for any good goal for any reasonable government...

Tazmode:
Gov. Ambode is doing great things and may surpass his predecessor's achievements, but it's not a competition, it's their duty and should be carried out in the best manner possible

Tazmode:
Gov. Ambode is doing great things and may surpass his predecessor's achievements, but it's not a competition, it's their duty and should be carried out in the best manner possible

Well said. He's working on a good foundation built by those before him

Welcome development

LASG can also consider working in partnership with FAAN to excise part of the land bordering Shasha (from around Ile-Zik and former Punch Estate) to burst out at down-down Shasha Orisumbare so as to create a parallel access road to people living around and commuting from Shasha, Ikotun, Ejigbo and environs without necessarily congesting Egbada-Idimu, Akowonjo, Cement and Mongoro axis.
This could a tolled link-road with FAAN collecting (the toll) at the entry point while LASG collects at the exit or vice-versa.