The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) says although its Mass Transit Train Services (MTTS) has yet to resume, it has been operating freight services from Apapa Port to Alagomeji Terminals in Yaba as well as to Ijoko Terminals in Ogun.
The Lagos Railway District Manager, Mr Jerry Oche, made this disclosure in an interview on Monday in Lagos while speaking on possibility of the corporation resuming service.
Recall that, the NRC announced the suspension of the Lagos-Ogun MTTS on March 25 as a measure to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the state and the country.
The NRC manager said, even though movement of cargoes from the port is ongoing, it has to work on passenger coaches to ensure social distancing, if it must resume operation amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Oche said: “We are working round the clock to see how we can maintain social distance in the coaches, if we must run and keep social distance.
“Nobody can tell when this COVID-19 will end; it has come to say for some time and government is already opening up the space gradually.
“Coaches of the mass transit trains service are to be worked upon to accommodate the possibility for social distancing, if we must resume and maintain social distancing,” he said.
According to him, the Diesel Multiple Units (DMUs) trains are under repairs in case the need arises for the corporation to begin MTTS amidst COVID-19.
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