Lagos NURTW's N10.2bn investment: 3,000 CNG tricycles set to hit the roads

• The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) successful Lagos has launched 3,000 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) commercialized tricycles
• Abiola emphasized that the displacement to CNG would drastically little operational costs for tricyclists
• Abiola highlighted the request for much CNG refilling stations successful Lagos and called connected the authorities to facilitate their constitution for easier access

The National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Lagos State Chapter, has launched a important inaugural aimed astatine reducing transport costs for residents by unveiling 3,000 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) commercialized tricycles valued astatine N10.2 billion.

The unveiling took spot connected Wednesday, October 16, successful Lagos, led by Alhaji Azeez Abiola, a salient NURTW chieftain.

Lagos NURTW rolls retired 3000 CNG powered tricycles Photo credit: @Nigerianstories
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During the launch, Abiola, who serves arsenic the Zonal Chairman of the Tricycle Owners and Operators Association of Nigeria nether NURTW, emphasized the initiative's imaginable to alleviate proscription challenges faced by Lagos residents, The Punch reported.

He stated,

“Over 3,000 CNG tricycles person been deployed to the authorities to easiness the outgo of proscription among the residents and, astatine the aforesaid time, trim economical hardship.”

Abiola expressed optimism astir the project’s interaction connected regular commuting costs.

He noted:

“As we motorboat this inaugural today, residents volition statesman to acquisition a simplification successful the outgo of proscription wrong their locality. "This improvement volition trim the outgo of surviving among our radical drastically,”

NURTW says CNG-powered tricycles volition prevention cost

According to Abiola, the operational costs for tricyclists volition spot a singular alteration with the displacement to CNG, Vanguard reported.

He explained:

“It costs a tricyclist N15,000 for substance to run daily, portion CNG cognition volition outgo betwixt N2,500 and N3,000 for regular operations."This power is expected to easiness fiscal burdens connected some operators and passengers."

The inaugural is besides poised to make implicit 5,000 caller jobs for operators and technicians specializing successful CNG conversions.

Abiola remarked,

“With this development, we are going to prosecute hundreds of our members, hole them successful the system, and show their operations from excessive charges.”

While celebrating this large advancement, Abiola highlighted the pressing request for much CNG refilling stations successful Lagos to enactment the recently deployed tricycles.

He urged the authorities to facilitate the constitution of further CNG stations person to the operators' localities, stating,

“We besides privation the authorities to assistance the prohibition connected tricycles connected the routes linked to the CNG filling presumption to marque refilling easier.”

Reps request contiguous terms hike reversal connected petrol, others

In different development, Legit.ng reported that the Nigerian House of Representatives has stepped successful to code the skyrocketing prices of petrol and cooking gas.

This, they demanded for contiguous chopped down connected outgo of cooking state and petrol to alleviate the increasing economical hardship faced by Nigerians.

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Source: Legit.ng