Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has promised residents of the state that operations on the Red Line train project will commence in the first quarter of 2023.
Governor Sanwo-Olu gave the assurance during the inspection of the Red Line projects in the state,said its deadline would not be exceeded.
“We can assure you that we won’t exceed the promise that the the operations will start in first quarter of 2023.”We want to ensure that physical infrastructure is completed by December latest. All stations, bridges, all walk-ways and all pedestrian bridges so that they can start testing. “Operationally, they will take two to three months: they need to check signalling and all the signallisations. So we hope that operations will start within the first quarter of 2023. They will start carrying first passengers from January.”
He added: “Operationally, we should start in the first quarter next year and this was the promise we give Lagosians that before the end of this administration, we will have passenger movement on the Red Line.”The journey on the Red Line project, which was conceived by the present administration will be delivered by the end of this year, the governor said.The inspection commenced from the Agege NRC Station where passengers from Ibadan can join the Intra-city train service and ended at the Ebute-Meta station.Also at the Ikeja, the iconic station on the Red Line, the governor assured that “work is ongoing and at the roof level, as well as going into completion,” adding that “works on the first class station will be completed by end of October.”