Full passenger operations on the Lagos Rail Mass Transit (LRMT) Red Line will begin on October 15, Managing Director of Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Abimbola Akinajo, has said.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu will lead his executive council members and other dignitaries on the passenger operations launch and ride with commuters on the first fee-paying passenger trip.
Akinajo, an engineer, said the train services would commence daily from Agbado at 6am.
Consequently, the schedule for the train service has been adjusted, with passenger movement starting from 6am from Agbado.
Before now, trips on the non-fee paying trial run on the corridor had started from Oyingbo at 9am, with the first train getting to Agbado at 10.07am.
The adjusted timetable foreshadows upcoming commercial passenger operations beginning on Tuesday.
Mrs. Akinajo said the new timetable was the outcome of the data gathered through series of tests, including those for the non-fee-paying passengers.
She said the new timetable gave priority to the origin trips from Agbado where riders lived and worked in Ikeja, Oshodi and on Lagos Island.
For passengers whose journeys terminate on Lagos Island, buses will be available at Oyingbo bus terminal for them to complete their journeys.
It would be recalled that infrastructure for the Red Line was inaugurated by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on February 29.
Red Line’s first phase spanning 27 kilometres has eight stations at Oyingbo, Yaba, Mushin, Oshodi, Ikeja, Agege, Iju and Agbado.
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