In a joint statement, Oluwoye, a Nigerian-American professor of transportation and environmental health, and Olaleye, a transportation planner in the United States, claimed that Nigeria’s progress was still hampered by a lack of proper data.
The statement provided to PUNCH praised the Lagos State Government for receiving the first batch of electric vehicles intended for use in public transit.
It also discussed how using electric vehicles could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Oluwoye and Olaleye contended that the Lagos administration, led by Governor Jide Sanwoo-Olu, has a responsibility to research the city’s transportation patterns, trends, and customs in order to collect information on trip generation and distribution.
The statement says:
“Governor Sanwo-Olu’s tweet shows that the state had concluded preliminary studies to determine the distance covered by BRT buses and compare it against the distance covered by the new electric buses.
“It is imperative for the government to focus on areas that are underserved, highly transport dependent as well as places that are economically disadvantaged. Residents of these areas need these services to function the most. Doing this will help check the chaos on many Lagos roads.”
“Ever since Lagos signed on as the only city among the 41 organisations in Nigeria that are part of the ‘Race to Zero’ campaign, environmental experts have been on the watch to see whether Lagos will be able to pull off the elimination of greenhouse gases or whether it will be all rhetoric.”
