LAMATA committed to Mile 12-Ikorodu BRT project 2014 deadline

Since last year when the construction works on Mile 12-Ikorodu BRT Extension and Road Expansion started, the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) has not reneged on its promise on completing the work as scheduled.

In the past six months when construction works and activities on the project commenced in December 2012, the project has progressed well.

Recently, the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), gauged the pulse of the community when it gathered the residents of the Ikorodu community to express their views on the progress of work so far executed during the second edition of the stakeholders’ meeting during which it appealed to the resident of Ikorodu community that it was aware of the untold hardship and traffic snarl being experienced at the ongoing extension BRT project.

According to the agency, “as part of our culture of accountability and continuous engagement of our stakeholders, another Enlarged Stakeholders’ Meeting (ESM) was held which brought all the concerned and relevant parties on the project together for an update.” This move, BusinessDay learnt, was designed to ensure that the public is adequately informed about the progress made on the project and other relevant issues.

Dayo Mobereola, managing director/chief executive officer, LAMATA, stated this at the agency’s stakeholders’ forum in Lagos over the weekend that LAMATA was doing everything within its limit to ensure speed completion of the BRT extension road project next year.

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According to him, it was better for the agency to parley with the residents of Ikorodu to explain and give them updates on the project, which according to him, when completed would bring further development, infrastructure and business opportunities to the Ikorodu environs.

He said the stakeholders’ meeting was organised because it is an avenue where all the stakeholders on the BRT expansion project converge and collaborate with the community people to know their minds about what they want and proffer suggestions to the agency on what to do, adding that it was better to carry the community along on the project.

The LAMATA’s boss stressed that the project was conceived to extend BRT service from Mile 12 to Ikorodu, while also improving the Ikorodu road network infrastructure. He noted that the community people needed to be patient and endure the untold hardship now, prophesying that the future will be brighter as the benefits for executing the project are enormous and geared towards transforming Ikorodu.