LAGOS MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY
Posted on 01 February 2010 by Railways Africa Editor
According to the Lagos state government, the design for the city’s N170 billion ($US1.2bn) mass transit light rail project has been completed. Enjoying World Bank financial assistance, it will include a 7.75km viaduct, a 3km coastal elevated track and a 610m bridge over sea water. Trains are to run at 100 km/h.
It is hoped to complete construction, providing jobs for about 4,000 Nigerians, in three years. State governor Babatunde Raji Fashola says the Chinese Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) is ready to begin work. The first construction phase, he told journalists, will be the 27.6km Blue Line from Okokomaiko to Marina, adding that Nigerians working on the London underground were keen “to come back home and run an efficient rail system”.
With regard to the proposed Red Line rail, the state is waiting for Federal Government agreement to use its existing rail corridor to link Iddo through Agbado and Ijoko in Ogun State.
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