Lagos intra-city trains tickets won’t cost more than N250-Sanwo-Olu

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said the tickets of the Lagos intra-city trains will not cost more than N250 per trip.

The governor disclosed this on Friday while featuring on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ programme.

Sanwo-Olu said the intra-city trains would help in decongesting traffic on the road, adding that it would be affordable for Lagosians.

The governor said his administration is ramping up the completion of ancillary infrastructures such as train stations ahead of the planned start of the intra-city train operations by the end of 2022.

According to him, the 37 km Red Line on completion, will traverse eight stations and move passengers from Agbado through Oyingbo.

When asked to give a price range, he said, “N200, N250, it (train ticket) probably won’t be more than that. The fare structure will be (determined by) where you are joining and taking off but typically it won’t be more than what you are running on your regular BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) today.

“For it to be accessible, affordability is really critical for people to want to make it a better option. You can say it is quicker, instead of you staying one hour on the road, it is going to take you 20 minutes.

“So, affordability is very critical. It is certainly not going to be in thousands, like using N5,000 on. A train journey, it is nothing close that, it is still going to be in the regular N200, that is what we are looking at”.