Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja The Federal Capital Territory Administration has unveiled plans for the country’s first underground rail line that will connect the Abuja Metro Station with the Central Business District, CBD, Bus Terminal. The Mandate Secretary, Transportation, Rt. Hon.
Chinedum Elechi disclosed this yesterday at the flag-off of the construction of Central Business District Bus/Taxi Terminal. He said the CBD Terminal is strategically located at Eagle Square, at the transportation interchange, adding the next to the terminal is a transit corridor for future underground light rail, which by the Abuja Master Plan, will run eight metres below the surface with train stops underground and then an intermodal transfer of commuters from the underground train stops to the bus/taxi terminal above the ground. Enechi said the rail line will be connected from the Metro Station at Central Business District.
“The rail line will be connected from the Metro Station at Central Business District just over there. It will come this way underground. There is a space between the two buildings where the underground train will come up and the station will be on the surface and the train will continue to run underground between the two buildings.
“What we are doing here today is both for now and the future of public transportation in the FCT,” Enechi said. He said when completed, the bus/taxi terminal will impact largely the public transportation of Abuja and will significantly redu.