The Lagos State Government says with the injection of 434 high capacity buses into its Bus Rapid Transit scheme on the just expanded Ikorodu-CMS route, about 450,000 passengers will be moved daily on the corridor.
The state Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Dayo Mobereola, who made this known in an interview shortly before the inauguration of the upgraded BRT lane in Ikorodu, said “The project will benefit all the people of Lagos not just the people of Ikorodu alone. It is everybody in the state that will take the BRT buses. The first pilot scheme was from Mile 12 to CMS. And that section from inception to date has carried almost 350 million passengers.
“And this one, on daily basis, will carry almost 450,000 passengers. It is meant to showcase that the way to go is to create a public transportation that will move the people en masse. A city with 22 million people needs efficient, reliable, accessible and safe transportation system. This is just an example of what we planned for Lagos State.”
The Mile 12-Ikorodu BRT extension was a N30bn project supervised by the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, which also involved the provision of complementary BRT infrastructure.
The corridor covers a distance of about 13.5km, with a median of 2m width and the BRT was designed as a median running with bilateral bus station configurations linked to bridges for pedestrian access.
The expanded lane called BRT Classic was opened on Thursday by the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, with a former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as a special guest.
