Lagos Light Rail Project to Be Completed By December 2016

 

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has made assurances that the Lagos Light Rail Project will be completed by December, 2016 because it would ease the traffic situation in the Lagos metropolis and improve the living standard of the people.

 

Ambode said: “This project is driven by commercial loans and bonds leaning on the state’s Internally Generated Revenue. That arrangement cannot be sustained. We are negotiating a better package that will deliver the project by the end of 2016.”

 

This is coming about six years after the Blue Line rail project was awarded to China Civil Engineering Construction Company. It is a 27-kilometre line stretching from Okokomaiko to Marina. The Blue line was initially slated for completion in 2011 but has suffered delays due to funding problems.

 

According to the implementing agency, the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, the first phase of the project from Mile 2 to the National Theatre (a distance of seven kilometres) has been completed; while work is ongoing on the second phase from Mile 2 to Marina.