Lagos integrates road, rail, water in bold, streamlined transportation master plan
By Theodore Opara
With about 20 million people occupying 3,345 square kilometers, movement has always been a challenge in metropolitan Lagos State. So when the Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde, presented the two-year scorecard of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in the transportation sector recently, the master plan can only be described as bold, but streamlined.
Whatever misgivings come with leaders’ ability to deliver on plans, the Lagos State government’s deployment of technology to integrate road, rail and water modes of transportation is seductive. The picture Oladeinde painted will make the movement of people, goods and services across the state effective, efficient, fluid and economical.
Meanwhile, below is a video of traffic chaos in Ikotun, one of the many gridlock points in the state:
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