The regulator of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) scheme; Lagos Metropolitan
Transport Authority (LAMATA), has unveiled plan to extend the service to
the heavily congested Oshodi-Iyana Ipaja-Abule-Egba route.
To
facilitate smooth operation of the scheme on the route, LAMATA is
awarding a contract to redesign the road with two BRT lanes to run in
the middle, starting from Abule-Egba towards Oshodi. The service lanes
of the expressway are also to be repaired and made more motorable.
This,
according Abiodun Dabiri, managing director of LAMATA, would be
accomplished within the next 20 months and would reduce travel time
along the route by at least 40 percent.