The permanent secretary, Lagos instruct ministry of transportation, Abdulhafiz Toriola, made this known in Lagos on Friday.
He said that Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu had been in a position to flag off commercial operations of Blue Line Rail one day of the main 100 days of his second term in scrape of job, as phase of the efforts.
He recommended the governor on the commencement of the 25-minute Blue Line Rail from Marina to Mile 2, noting that the governor had been in a position to push further the multimodal transportation within the instruct.
In accordance to him, Mr Sanwo-Olu has also equipped further standardised boats to make stronger water transportation and construct passenger self assurance in patronising water transportation.
Mr Toriola recalled that on Aug. 2, the governor slashed the value of transportation on all its transport programs, including Blue Line Rail, by 50 per cent, as a palliative measure in opposition to the attain of gas subsidy elimination.
The permanent secretary said that Mr Sanwo-Olu had also made arrangements with diverse transport unions to give a 25 per cent chop value to commuters.
He said that executive used to be being very proactive to construct existence extra bearable for residents.
“Mr Governor has also directed the ministry to glimpse for other manner of making improvements to the transport sector within the instruct due to as lengthy as now we absorb got excessive population there shall be web site traffic actions.
“Web site visitors indicates the enlargement within the financial system. We now absorb discovered your total web site traffic areas within the instruct and we are practicing making improvements to the web site traffic circulation in Lagos,” he said.
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