Heavy gridlock has been reported in most parts of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, following the arrival of President Tinubu, who is in the State to commission the Red Line Rail Project.
Recall, AAN TV reported on Tuesday that the Lagos State Government was going to shut down the Third Mainland Bridge linking the State’s Mainland Axis and the Island.
Video Footage Obtained by AAN TV showed about 50 vehicles in the President’s convoy as traffic worsened on the other side of the road.
Sources also confirmed to AAN TV that there is heavy security presence in Ikeja, the Lagos State capital, with heavy gridlock reported in Alfred Rewane, Falomo, and Adeniji Axis.
The Red Line rail project is a 37 Kilometre North South rail route proposed to run from Agbado to Marina with 13 stations at Agbado, Iju, Agege, Ikeja, MMIA International, MMIA Domestic, Oshodi, Mushin, Yaba, Ebute meta, Iddo, Ebute Ero and Marina.
The project upon approval and completion will complement the Traffic and Transportation pillar of the T.H.E.M.E.S agenda thereby reducing traffic gridlock and predictability of movement by ensuring productivity and efficiency.
It will also provide alternatives to road and water mode of transportation within Lagos metropolis.
Lagos signed a track sharing agreement with the Federal Ministry of Transport through Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) and the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) in 2018 to utilise the track standard gauge railway track planned to convey commuters between Abuja and Lagos through Ibadan and Alagbado to Iddo.
