Realdeals:
You mean 100m Euro has been expended between Iganmu and Marina and the work is yet to be completed? Fashola completed Iganmu to Mile 2 before leaving office.
They should also stop deceiving themselves with the red lane, FG is still struggling to create space for the Lagos-Ibadan rail track in some places like Oshodi and Ikeja

freeze001:


Obviously there is poor accountability and transparency as far as this project is concerned. Yet see what a supposed youth had to say:

LaudableXX:

I don't believe his fake excuses.... after spending all dat 100 million euros? Haba! Do they think they are talking to f00ls?

RockHard:


Eh.. this has been trashed here before. They are not the same model. Besides, the Lagos one has met with series of challenges that's affected its timely delivery.

Lagos light rail is elevated for most parts since it runs on swampy land and it's also a 2 way rail.

You'll have to calculate the cost of the pilings, the concrete footings and it's larger size to accommodate the 2 trains at the same time.

It also crosses a water body and it's complete with a super highway that runs alongside it with pedestrian bridges linking the train stations which are also elevated.

The Ethiopian Lightrail runs on land and is a normal railway line with stops alongside it.

Their specifications and topography are miles apart, hence the cost difference and delivery timing. (Credit to ba7man).

deomelo:
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Stop spewing ignorant nonsense that you can not prove with facts, you are entitled to your opinions, even flawed opinions, but not facts that you can not prove.

seborrhic:
Something that took Ethiopia just 4years to complete(2011-2015) at a fraction of the cost Lagos is spending and still to spend.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addis_Ababa_Light_Rail
By 2022,if it's actually completed by then,it would have taken Lagos state government 14years and probably a billion dollars to complete a light rail from Mile 2 to Marina.
This will surely enter into the Guiness book of records.

deomelo:



So, you are a financial and cost expert when it comes to metro rail construction? Iganmu to Marina means constructing a rail bridge and track over the Lagos Lagoon from Iganmu to Marina/CMS.


So, as a financial and construction cost expart, please tell us how much it cost tro drill and pile from Iganmu to Marina, also the cost of labor and materials and so on.


Beats me why grown adults make ignorant assertions like elementary school kids..

LaudableXX:

Guy, which other light rail project in the world is as expensive as the one that Lagos has embarked upon? Over 100 million Euro has been spent, and yet it is unfinished. Instead of trying to do a root cause analysis, we are giving excuses of topography and swamps? Haba! If the same topography and swamp existed in another country, the light rail would have been completed and put into operation, since! How many years have they spent building that thing, and yet it is still uncompleted?

chloride6:


Lies...

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Blue3k:


Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/280441-ambode-govt-spends-over-100mn-euros-on-lagos-light-rail-project.html

Realdeals:


Can you tell me how much has been expended so far on the project? I don't know, I just know the whole contract including the road expansion is about $600m and out of which Ambode claim to have spent 100M Euro
What I also know is that out of the amount Ambode have spent so far, No rail station was built, even the piling across the Lagoon has not reached any appreciable level, the only work that was done on that project is between Ebute ero and CMS, what else?

RevenGeMission:
Some people will never see anything GOOD in Ambode or APC

even in BOQs same plan built in different location will never cost the same , let alone an entirely different model which they use as comparism
/ incompetency , some people are beyond redemption

They won't consider the difference in circumstances, even till now we do not have stable power , i am sure the heavy works required to be done has to be done with electricity too


People are just stupid and it bothers me

AZeD1:
Ottawa's LRT is costing $2 billion for the first stage. Its 12.5km in Length with a project timeline of 6 years.

Its way shorter than that of Lagos but a large part of it runs underground.

The 2nd phase which is 11km is expected to cost $1.8 billion.

So the city of Ottawa would be spending about $4B on a 24km LRT while that of Lagos is 27km.

I am not saying Lagos is transparent or not inflated.

LaudableXX:


Abeg, stop comparing apples with cocoyams. You just said that Ottawa's light rail is expected to run underground. This means drilling, excavation, concrete tunnels etc, would be prevalent in the Ottawa design. Did any part of the Lagos light rail run underground? How much excavation was done, down here? The Ottawa Light Rail is expected to include a 3.2km-long downtown tunnel, unlike the Lagos light rail.

Secondly, the type of trains to be used for the Ottawa light rail system, are quite different from the Tokunbo models that would be deployed on the Lagos light rail system. They are brand new swanky Bombardier bullet trains, not the same type as those proposed for Lagos LRT.

Thirdly, the Ottawa light rail is expected to span 6 years for the entire project, from inception to completion. Lagos light rail has been under construction for how many years again....remind me?

RockHard:


Eh.. this has been trashed here before. They are not the same model. Besides, the Lagos one has met with series of challenges that's affected its timely delivery.

Lagos light rail is elevated for most parts since it runs on swampy land and it's also a 2 way rail.

You'll have to calculate the cost of the pilings, the concrete footings and it's larger size to accommodate the 2 trains at the same time.

It also crosses a water body and it's complete with a super highway that runs alongside it with pedestrian bridges linking the train stations which are also elevated.

The Ethiopian Lightrail runs on land and is a normal railway line with stops alongside it.

Their specifications and topography are miles apart, hence the cost difference and delivery timing. (Credit to ba7man).

RockHard:


Eh.. this has been trashed here before. They are not the same model. Besides, the Lagos one has met with series of challenges that's affected its timely delivery.

Lagos light rail is elevated for most parts since it runs on swampy land and it's also a 2 way rail.

You'll have to calculate the cost of the pilings, the concrete footings and it's larger size to accommodate the 2 trains at the same time.

It also crosses a water body and it's complete with a super highway that runs alongside it with pedestrian bridges linking the train stations which are also elevated.

The Ethiopian Lightrail runs on land and is a normal railway line with stops alongside it.

Their specifications and topography are miles apart, hence the cost difference and delivery timing. (Credit to ba7man).

LaudableXX:


Abeg, stop comparing apples with cocoyams. You just said that Ottawa's light rail is expected to run underground. This means drilling, excavation, concrete tunnels etc, would be prevalent in the Ottawa design. Did any part of the Lagos light rail run underground? How much excavation was done, down here? The Ottawa Light Rail is expected to include a 3.2km-long downtown tunnel, unlike the Lagos light rail.

Secondly, the type of trains to be used for the Ottawa light rail system, are quite different from the Tokunbo models that would be deployed on the Lagos light rail system. They are brand new swanky Bombardier bullet trains or Bombardier Talent multiple unit trains, not the same type as those proposed for Lagos LRT.

Thirdly, the Ottawa light rail is expected to span 6 years for the entire project, from inception to completion. Lagos light rail has been under construction for how many years again....remind me?

deomelo:






You don't know, but you are still spewing tales and acting as if you kmnow/ Are you confuesYou are not a construction engineer and you have zero clue par what the project entails or cost of materials, labor and so on so stop spewing baseless and ignorant tales.

I can not prove what I never asserted, you made the claims about cost so the burden is on you to sow us documented facts relating to rail cost all over the world to compare with Lagos metro rail.

Do that and quit spewing rumors, gossip and flawed opinion.

Stop spewing tales that you can not prove with facts.

bigsmoke2:

Ethiopians railway spans a distance of about 750 km Lagos railway is just 35km

[b]System length 31.6 km (19.6 mi)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addis_Ababa_Light_Rail[/b]