The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, on Thursday said passengers on economy will not pay more than N500 per trip from Abuja to Kaduna or vice versa, when the project is finally flagged off next week Tuesday.
Amaechi disclosed this on Thursday while answering questions during a tour of the rail project in Abuja to ascertain its readiness for public use.
He said:
“The passengers have asked me to bringthe fare down to N500 and I think I can do that.”
He noted that originally the government had planned to collect N900 for business class and N600 for economy class.
The project is due for inauguration by President Muhammadu Buhari next week in Abuja.
He said the test run has been on for more than a month with passengers being ferried free of charge.
“From the experience that we have all seen today, we are set to go. This test run exercise has been on for over a month. We said it was going to run for two weeks but we allowed it for six weeks so that everybody can use it,” he said.
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Answering reporters’ questions after the final inspection of the project which is due for inauguration by President Muhammadu Buhari next week in Abuja, he said the test run has been on for more than a month with passengers being ferried from Kaduna to Abuja free of charge. According to him, from Tuesday next week after the commissioning by the president, government will then begin to charge passengers N500 per passenger per trip on the economy class.