• Sanwo-Olu restates government’s zero-tolerance for flouting of rules guiding transportation
• ‘Over 20,000 setbacks identified for parking across Lagos’
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday, said that the Red Line Rail project would be commissioned on February 29 by President Bola Tinubu.
Sanwo-Olu disclosed this during the Lagos State Parking Authority stakeholders’ forum themed, “Parking in Lagos, the journey so far.”
He said that the President would commission the project at the Intermodal Rail Terminal in Ikeja.
The governor said his administration would be committed to intermodal transportation, which the Red Line Rail project will further drive.
Sanwo-Olu, who spoke on parking in Lagos State, said that considering the crucial role that parking management plays in traffic management around the world, and the fact that traffic management and transportation is the first pillar of the administration’s THEMES+ agenda, his administration could not but place it on the front-burner of transport policy implementation in Lagos State.
The governor said that an on-Street parking scheme was approved to regulate the existing roadside parking and checkmate haphazard parking.
He urged all stakeholders to comply with the parking policy in the renewed and intentional effort to curb indiscriminate parking in the state.
Earlier in her welcome address, General Manager, LASPA, Adebisi Adelabu, disclosed that over 20,000 setbacks suitable for parking across the state had been identified and more than 13,000 are already in use, while works are ongoing to identify more.
“Also, over 1,800 parking slots have been created through the on-Street parking strategy and 1,162 signages installed to make parking easy for residents,” she said.
