IgbereTV reports that the Lagos State government is planning to launch the first of several planned intra-city lines by the end of 2020. This is due to the frequent traffic congestion experienced on lagos roads, which leads to loss of time and productivity.

The governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday hinted the plan while speaking at a forum on “Public Private Innovation for Sustainable Cities” organised by the Embassy of France in Lagos, stressing that the state was pushing ahead with the work on the Lagos Metro Rail service to make it happen.

Represented at the occasion by his Deputy, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, he said that, transportation was critical to the success of any urban area and that with its limited land mass, the future of Lagos lay primarily in viable alternative to overdependence on road transportation.

He said: “For this reason, our focus for the medium and long term is water and rail transportation. Fortunately, we have a sizeable mass of water, the Lagos lagoon running across the state. We are ramping up the rollout of public water transport service, while also encouraging the private sector to invest in the sector,” he said.



Also, he said, “As the Chief Executive of one of the fastest growing cities in the world, planning and envisioning the future of this sprawling mass of people occupies a significant portion of my waking moment. It is indeed what I was elected to do. Lagos is an important city for many reasons. It is an economic magnet, not just for Nigerians from across the country but even across all of Africa. It accounts for roughly a fifth of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product and by itself the GDP of Lagos is larger than that of all but six or seven African countries.”

The French Ambassador to Nigeria, Jerome in his opening remark, spoke of an Africa-France Summit tagged, “La cite des solutions” a trade fair for project leaders across sectors private and public alike, to debate collectively about the future of cities and how to make them habitable, sustainable and proffer solutions and action plans to combat challenges of climate change demographic growth and urbanisation.

http://igberetvnews.com/1082377/lagos-launch-intra-city-lines-2020-reduce-traffic-congestion/

Finish the light railway first before you start another one. Lagos is wasting billions daily because of man hours spent on traffic.

Maybe they should also focus on the shameful drainage conditions in some high brow regions of the state while they're at it.

Whatever happens to the rail line fashola started I hope is not already considered an abandoned project, since Fashola left the master plan of Lagos has been in a slower and unachievable pace..
Just check my signature

Very good development.

Sanwo-Olu keep up the good work.

God bless Lagos state.

God bless Nigeria

hmmm


it took Lagos 2 weeks to repair the road leading to ojuelegba that's from onipanu,

guess what ?

the road lasted only 2 weeks , and spoil again

much much more than it was before the repair

yesterday I spent 3 good hours there going ojuelegba

coming back again I spent nearly 2 hrs again going palmgrove

who awarded these contracts ?


update - the side going ojuelegba was repaired again yesterday that's 23rd oct

Always planning to

They always have plans on paper.

pauladonis:
Maybe they should also focus on the shameful drainage conditions in some high brow regions of the state while they're at it.

One thing at a time bro, u can’t fight a war on different fronts.

In that Pepsi advert voice

We will
We will
Lie to you.

We will
We will
Lie to you

Story...

Finish the Blue Line first...

Ayt27:
We will
We will

chloride6:
Story...
Finish the Blue Line first...

StrikeBack:
They always have plans on paper.

oluwaseyi000:
Always planning to

Stop the wailing boys.
Be progressive for once!

Crixxx:
ee go still fail.. Useless country

only a failure can spot another failure.
Knocks!

awa:
Lagos is a city of Jokers....Nothing is working here

Commentor:

But you no gree comot.

Lol
Perfect reply!

I don't see it happening.

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This will indeed be a good development if and only if it is not reduced to audio project cos the traffic condition in Lagos is unbearable.




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StrikeBack:
They always have plans on paper.

inter city line After using like 10 years to construct light rail.inter city ko,inter village ni.

Lagos is a city of Jokers....Nothing is working here

I usually don't believe all these stories anymore.

slimfit1:
Finish the light railway first before you start another one.

He doesn't have to complete the light rail before embarking on other alternatives.

awa:
Lagos is a city of Jokers....Nothing is working here

But you no gree comot.

ee go still fail.. Useless country

B

Which road are dey gonna ply, we talking about bad roads dey talking about intercity rubbish

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Stop the wailing boys.
Be progressive for once!

you are very ceely. Now swerve!!

when?
when?
when?

All these future projects don tire person