The Lagos State Authorities has assured that its Rail Mass Transit Pink Line is on track for the deliberate unveiling in March with all of its infrastructure nearing completion.
Giving an replace in a video obtained by The PUNCH on Monday, the Managing Director, Lagos Metropolitan Space Transport Authority, Mrs Abimbola Akinajo, stated the company was “assured and cozy that we are going to meet the deadline that Mr Governor has given us.”
Akinajo stated the tracks for the rail system had been 95 per cent accomplished whereas the eight practice stations being constructed as a part of the Pink Line infrastructure had been “actually accomplished.”
“We’re implementing eight stations and that’s all the way in which from Agbado. We have now a station at Agbado, we’ve a station in Iju, we’ve a station in Agege, we’ve a station in Ikeja, we’ve a station in Mushin, we’ve a station in Oshodi, Oyingbo and Yaba. Now, all these stations as a degree of replace are actually accomplished. We have now most of them, besides Yaba, 99.9 per cent accomplished.
“Yaba, in the intervening time, is about 89 per cent accomplished. Now, from the place we’re sitting, that implies that we’re assured and cozy that we are going to meet the deadline that Mr Governor has given us. By way of the monitor work, we’re performed. In case you keep in mind, that is the one line that we’re sharing with the NRC tracks,” she stated.
The LAMATA MD added that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu had procured two units of trains for the Pink Line operations, saying, “So, we’re very assured that will probably be accomplished by the primary quarter of 2024.
“Now for us, if additionally, you will keep in mind, Mr Governor had procured two units of trains. These might be prepared for the testing and operations that can begin instantly after the disclosing of the rail system.
“So, we count on that to begin come the start of March, the center of March and that can enable us to start to check and in addition to work the interfaces between NRC.”
The PUNCH reviews that Sanwo-Olu had stated that President Bola Tinubu would unveil the primary section of the Lagos Pink Line rail within the first quarter of 2024.