The $275 million Lagos Cable Car initiative will begin operations next year and is expected to handle about 240,000 trips daily according to Dayo Mobereola, the state’s commissioner for transportation.
According to him, the cable car project will have eight stations in three routes. Upon completion next year, the cable car route will start from Ijora to Apapa and Victoria Island. Adeniji Adele will be the project’s central hub.
“It is privately driven and the private sector need to get all the permits, on the side of Lagos, we have given them all the necessary permit, they are talking to the federal government to get some level of guarantees and we have assisted them to write to the federal government. They have taken the advantage by starting to build from the Iddo side of Lagos,” Mobereola told The Guardian.
Ropeways Transport Limited is in charge of the cable car project which seeks to deploy a Mass Urban `Cable Propelled Transit system in the Lagos Metropolitan Area Called the “Lagos Sky Bus”. The company said the project will serve as an affordable and reliable transportation alternative to Lagos’ over 12 million daily commuters who are currently compelled to utilise articulated buses, motorcycles, ferries and private vehicles on severely congested roads within the Lagos Metropolis.
“It is also expected to provide significant returns to investors and potentially reduce the carbon footprint in Central Lagos by up to 30%.”
