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LAGOS INAUGURATES SECOND INTRA-CITY RAIL LINE, SET TO MOVE 250,000 PASSENGERS DAILY

LAGOS INAUGURATES SECOND INTRA-CITY RAIL LINE, SET TO MOVE 250,000 PASSENGERS DAILY •Tinubu Opens Red Line, Says ‘Lagos An Example of How Vision Exalts Democracy’ •‘Rail Accomplishments, Results of Our Painstaking Reforms’ — Sanwo-Olu •LAMATA, Chinese Engineering Firm Sign New Rail Development Contract Lagos welcomed a new intra-city metro line — the second sub national rail infrastructure to be completed and opened by the State within a space of one year. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Thursday, formally inaugurated the Lagos Rail Mass Transit (LRMT) Red Line delivered by the administration of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to give urban commuters a new transport option within the nation’s economic metropolis. The first phase of the 37-kilometre rail line, constructed by the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), was commissioned with seven stations built along its corridor, traversing Agbado — a boundary town in