Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has made assurances that the Lagos
Light Rail Project will be completed by December, 2016 because it would ease
the traffic situation in the Lagos metropolis and improve the living standard
of the people.
Ambode said: “This project is driven by commercial
loans and bonds leaning on the state’s Internally Generated Revenue. That
arrangement cannot be sustained. We are negotiating a better package that will
deliver the project by the end of 2016.”
This is coming about six years after the Blue Line
rail project was awarded to China Civil Engineering Construction Company. It is
a 27-kilometre line stretching from Okokomaiko to Marina. The Blue line was
initially slated for completion in 2011 but has suffered delays due to funding
problems.
According to the implementing agency, the Lagos Metropolitan
Area Transport Authority, the first phase of the project from Mile 2 to the
National Theatre (a distance of seven kilometres) has been completed; while
work is ongoing on the second phase from Mile 2 to Marina.
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