{"id":74950,"date":"2025-09-04T17:56:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74950"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:56:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:56:54","slug":"lagos-blue-line-surpasses-5-million-passengers-in-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/04\/lagos-blue-line-surpasses-5-million-passengers-in-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos Blue Line Surpasses 5 Million Passengers in Two Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/p>\n<p>The Lagos Rail Mass Transit Blue Line has crossed the five million passenger mark since its launch two years ago, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sanwo-Olu hailed the milestone, noting the rail line\u2019s flawless safety record with zero accidents. He revealed that the service now runs every 10 minutes, completing more than 90 trips daily to ease gridlock in the metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on his official X account, the governor thanked Lagosians for their trust and support, describing the achievement as proof of what collective commitment can deliver.<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate the anniversary and encourage ridership, he declared a 50 percent fare slash for Thursday, September 4.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Line remains central to the state government\u2019s vision of modernizing mass transit and building a more efficient transport network for Africa\u2019s largest city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo The Lagos Rail Mass Transit Blue Line has crossed the five million passenger mark since its launch two years ago, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced on Wednesday. Sanwo-Olu hailed the milestone, noting the rail line\u2019s flawless safety record with zero accidents. He revealed that the service now runs every 10 minutes, completing more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":74951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-74950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74952,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74950\/revisions\/74952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}