Lagos State authorities has assured Lagosians that the problem of gridlock throughout the state has been tamed with varied iconic tasks that may form the face of commuting in 2024.
The State Commissioner for Info and Technique, Gbenga Omotoso, gave this assurance, throughout an interactive session with newsmen over the weekend, whilst he listed some iconic tasks that might be unveiled through the yr by the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s administration.
In response to him, the tasks embody: the Purple Line Rail, the Opebi-Ojota Hyperlink Bridge and the completion of 15 Ferry Jetties in addition to the deployment of an extra 12 ferries to the prevailing ones, saying that these would ease commuting throughout the state
The commissioner stated the Opebi Hyperlink Bridge would take site visitors off the Ikorodu Highway and make entry to the Airport from Ojota loads simpler, noting that the Purple Line would cut back the about three-hour journey time by highway from Iddo to Agbado to about 35 minutes whereas the Water Transportation would obtain a lift with the completion of about 15 new jetties and the addition of 12 boats to the prevailing 21.
This was simply as he shortly recalled that, at inception, the Sanwo-Olu-led authorities inherited seven ferry boats and elevated the quantity to 14 after which 21.
Talking additional on the legacy tasks of the current administration, Omotoso hinted that extra developmental tasks such because the Fourth Mainland Bridge, Massey Avenue Hospital, 500-Mattress Psychological Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre, Ketu-Ejinrin Meals and Logistics Hub, the Lekki Worldwide Airport, Omu Creek venture, the Coastal Highway venture, Leather-based Hub at Mushin and Basic Hospitals, would obtain the eye of the state authorities this yr.
The commissioner, whereas noting that the tasks have been geared in direction of creating jobs for the teeming inhabitants of the state, opined that the Fourth Mainland Bridge was able to creating 10,000 jobs and exposing younger engineers to sensible data about constructing such gigantic tasks.
Shedding extra gentle on the Fourth Mainland Bridge and the Purple Line, the Commissioner disclosed that the popular bidder for the bridge, a consortium of building firms and financiers, had been chosen, including that the monetary commitments have been being labored out and bodily work anticipated to begin quickly.
He stated the Purple Line was about 90 per cent accomplished, mentioning that the final of the overdrive situated in Mushin could be commissioned quickly.
On the function of the state authorities within the latest change of management within the Nationwide Union of Highway Transport Employees (NURTW) in Lagos State, the commissioner declared pointedly that it was purely a Union matter, assuring that the federal government would recognise and relate with any reliable management of all associations within the state.