The Lagos state government has postponed the commencement of construction of the $3 billion green line rail project to December.
The update was shared by the state commissioner for transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, in a statement posted on the government’s official X social media platform on Monday, October 13.
In April, he had indicated that construction would begin before the end of the year.
Once completed, the 70-kilometre green line will connect Marina to the Lekki free trade zone, featuring 17 stations along a combination of elevated and at-grade tracks.
The route starts at Marina, passes through Victoria Island, links with the Lekki-Epe Expressway, and continues through Ajah, Sangotedo, and the Lekki Free Zone.
The project is expected to take two to three years to complete and will be implemented in phases.
Phase one will cover the stretch from Lekki First Tollgate to Epe, while phase two, beginning from Marina, will include an on water segment.
Osiyemi highlighted that extensive feasibility studies and stakeholder consultations along the Lekki-Epe corridor have already been conducted to prepare for the project.
The statement read, “The commissioner for transportation, Seun Osiyemi, remarked that the government had done a lot of stakeholder engagements as well as a lot of feasibility studies along the Lekki-Epe expressway corridor because the green line project will commence in December.
“The green line project would take about two to three years and would begin from Marina all the way to Epe, saying the projects would come in phases, with the first phase from Lekki first tollgate to Epe and the second Phase from Marina would be on the water.”
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