Lagos Govt Subjects Redline Train Mass Transit To Scrutiny Ahead of Commissioning
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Mr Oluwaseun Osiyemi, (L), Commissioner for Transportation, Lagos State, Engr Abimbola Akinajo, Managing Director, Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, in the train
As the pioneer project of a state government-owned train service in Nigeria is getting traction in Lagos state, the launch of the Redline Rail to complement the newly commissioned Blue Line Rail by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been attracting painstaking efforts of top government functionaries to ensure an impeccable rail system holds sway, when the Redline Rail Mass Transit is commissioned.
Hence, the Lagos State Commissioner of Transportation, Mr Oluwaseun Osiyemi, in the company of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transportation, Mr Wale Musa, the Managing Director, Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, Engr Abimbola Akinajo, and other top technocrats in the ministry and the agency conducted a test run of the procedures from the point of view of a passenger.
The non-fee paying return trip aboard the Redline Rail took off from Ikeja train station with Agbado station as the destination.
According to the media statement from the Ministry of Transportation, signed by Bolanle Ogunlola (Mrs.),
Deputy Director, Public Affairs, the train took off at the Ikeja station by 1:30 PM, made brief stops at the Agege station, Iju station, and arrived at its destination, Agbado Train Station by 1:47 PM.
The statement said that for the return trip, the train with its VIP occupants took off from Agbado at 2:50 PM, and arrived at Ikeja station by 3:19 PM.
Bolanle Ogunlola narrated that those onboard “the train with the Commissioner were, the Permanent Secretary, Mr Olawale Musa, the Managing Director of LAMATA, Engr. Abimbola Akinajo, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Transportation, Hon. Toyin Aremu, and Directors in the Ministry of Transportation amongst others”.
Ogunlola added that “for the past six weeks, the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, had conducted test runs without passengers, achieving a 90 per cent success rate”.
She further explained that “This current phase, involving non-fee paying passengers, aimed to study passengers’ behaviours along the corridor and provide LAMATA with valuable insights to fine-tune the operations before the official launch of passenger services”.
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