Starting from Monday, October 16, Lagos State Government will increment train trips from 12 to 54, focusing on 74 outings before the finish of November on the Lagos Rail Mass Travel (LRMT) Blue Line (Marina to Mile 2).
In an explanation, yesterday, the Specialist, Corporate Correspondence, Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Kolawole Ojelabi, said that it is normal that by next Monday, the tracks would have been empowered, subsequently considering the organization of extra train sets for day to day traveler tasks,
“In front of the expansion in train trips, train administrations will run on Saturday October 14 (morning top in particular), while there would be no help on Saturday evening and on Sunday, October 15, to consider the total change over to power.
The Managing Director of LAMATA, Mrs Abimbola Akinajo, said: “We want to close down train tasks for traveler security while the change to power is on as well as guarantee that the test is completed in a protected way.
“The training overall is to suspend traveler tasks at whatever point a gigantic change, for example, the one we need to do throughout the end of the week is to occur. The switch will permit us to present more excursions and convey more travelers,” she said.
Traveler activity of the principal period of the Lagos Rail Mass Transit (LRMT) Blue Line was sent off by Lead representative Babajide Sanwo-Olu on September 4, 2023 and needs to date moved north of 80,000 travelers.
It is projected that traveler development among Marina and Mile 2 before very long will outperform 150,000 travelers, day to day.