Almost two decades after the project started, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday, celebrated completion of infrastructure work on the first phase of the Lagos Blue Rail Mass Transit (LRMT).
At exactly 1:31p.m., the governor formally stepped into the coach and took the first trip aboard the electric-powered rail infrastructure.
The governor led his Deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, members of the state cabinet, reporters and members of the public on a ride from the National Theatre Station to the iconic station in Marina. The trip took approximately 10 minutes.
Sanwo-Olu said the milestone in development of LRMT is the culmination of several impactful reforms in the transport ecosystem of Lagos State, starting in 1999, the dawn of the Fourth Republic, when Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu assumed office as the democratically elected governor of Lagos State.
