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The Managing Director of Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Abimbola Akinajo, says more than 75,000 commercial buses, also known as ‘Danfo’, ply Lagos roads.
Akinajo also said that Lagos required high capacity buses for mass transport.
She delivered the second edition of the Endowed Professional Chair of Transport Studies Lecture at the Lagos State University (LASU).
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the lecture was organised by LASU’s School of Transport and Logistics.
It had the theme: “Transport Infrastructure Delivery and Sustainable Development of Lagos State: LAMATA Experience”.
Akinajo said: “We are a gas producer, so it makes sense for us to utilise our gas.
“When I travel and they talk about e-buses being the only way for sustainability, I disagree.
“This is not because it is not a fact, but because it may not be the way for every city.
I live in a world where I feel that, for us to begin to see sustainability, we need to go mass transportation.
“Today, we have over 75,000 ‘danfos’. The vision must be that we begin to look at going mass,” she said.
She said that it implied that a high capacity bus would be replacing about five commercial buses.
“That means we have railway, we have high-capacity buses,” she said.
