Primero Transport Services introduces app, ‘Lagos BRT’ for seamless service
The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Primero Transport Services Limited, lead franchise operator of Lagos Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) has revealed that the company, Fola Tinubu has introduced an App, Lagos BRT to ease service delivery.
In an interview, he explained that “Where we’re going is for everybody to use smart cards, and with cards you can load it, and put whatever you want in there”.
“You can plan it like say one week, it’s already on, we are working on with Lagos and the State is also working on it. There is an app that you can put on your phone called, Lagos BRT, and with that app, within 24 hours before you actually use a bus it can say I want to go from Fadeyi to Ketu, and it would tell you when the bus would get there.
“It’s not 100 per cent, but we are working on it, and that is where we are going with technology, so that you can plan your journey 24 hours before, and you know when you have to get to your bus stop. Lagos traffic permitting, if you say the bus would be there at 10 am, at that time it should be there.
On future plans, Tinubu revealed that “My goal and my dream are to make Primero the number one public transport system in Nigeria. I pray that we end up with over 2,000 buses running all over Lagos, and picking up over a million people daily, those are my goals”.
“And I believe it’s possible, and our services are not where I want them to be, because right now, people still wait, as far as I’m concerned, too long to board our buses. So my goal is to reduce the queue and leg of time they wait for buses; I don’t believe anybody should wait more than 10 to 15 minutes to board a bus, and that’s what I’m working to and I would not rest until I get it right.
