TechDaddy:
No matter how many good infrastructure Lagos puts up, they will quickly deteriorate under the weight of overpopulation.

The FG should work towards creating more commercial cities so that people can have options to go those places to trade or work. That's how economies grow!

yes they shall detoriate but lagos has more than enough money to maintain and rebuild more of its due, even when some are stolen. Lag is miles ahead of other shithole states

CARLOSZ:
More photos.
Lalasticlala

Can we see photos of the light rail also moving Lagosians since June 2013 when Fashola said it would start working?
Abi the billions of dollars don enter voicemail


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TTC in talks to sell old trains to Lagos. Are they safe enough?
AUGUST 10, 2011

As Toronto trainspotters gleefully take maiden rides on the TTC's Rocket, commuters in Lagos, Nigeria may be about to get some new trains of their own. Our old ones.

A TTC spokesperson has confirmed that the commission is negotiating with a private group to sell up to 260 used train cars to the West African megacity's new transit project.

"I can confirm that the TTC is in discussion with a third party that wants to purchase trains for Lagos," said commission spokesperson Brad Ross. "Over a period of time, they will be taken out of service and then transported over to Nigeria."

The cars being considered for sale are the TTC's old H-5 and H-6 models, which will be decommissioned as the TTC rolls out its new fleet of Rockets. Ross predicts the earliest they could be shipped to Nigeria is sometime in 2012.

Traffic snarls are already a major economic problem in the Nigerian capital, a booming city that will reach an estimated population of 25 million by 2015. A new above-ground rail system designed to carry 1.5 million people a day has already broken ground, and Lagos Governor Babtunde Fashola has said it "will be the most multi-dimensional and most impactful" of the government's efforts to reduce traffic congestion.

Fashola visited Toronto earlier this year to inspect the TTC trains.

The Lagos deal would be the first of its kind for the TTC. Decommissioned cars are usually sold for scrap metal and can fetch up to $1,500 dollar each. While Ross declined to discuss specific figures, he says the sticker price for Lagos is "significantly more" than scrap prices, putting the potential profits to the TTC in the millions of dollars.

From: https://nowtoronto.com/news/next-stop-nigeria/

ojuoluwani:
LAGOS State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday, gave a breakdown of how his administration expended the N160 billion World Bank loan it acquired, saying the state maintained a healthy debt profile.

Fashoa, who spoke during his commemoration of 2,700 days in office and achievements in the last 100 days, in Alausa, Ikeja, said long overdue refund would go a long way in reducing the debt profile of the State, which he said the Federal Government recently published to mislead the public.

He said, “Recently, our political adversaries issued statements that we have borrowed N160 billion. What they have not told you is what we are doing with the money.”

Enumerating his government’s activities within the period under consideration he said; “In the last 100 days, we have commenced work on providing street lighting on the Muritala Muhammed Way in Yaba.

This is 10 kilometres of public lighting which will be completed by the end of this month. On Eko Bridge, Carter Bridge, Ikorodu Road, Lekki-Epe Expressway and every street and highway where there is street lighting in Lagos, it is the Lagos State Government that supplied the poles, the bulbs, the diesel and the maintenance.

“The only major highway we are not managing for street lights is the 3rd Mainland Bridge.

Fire engines, to secure lives, rail transport from Okokomaiko to Marina, with four stations of eight kilometres completed, and work heading to Marina, with piles appearing near the Eko Bridge every day are the places your Government is spending money. The expansion of the Lagos Badagry Expressway to a 10-lane highway is another place where your Government is spending money.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/lagos-spent-n160-bn-world-bank-loan-fashola/

I can sight BICS garden and boat Club at Wole Olateju ...

Omihanifa:
1.36km bridge at the cost of 29billion naira is clearly over inflated but it's still better than doing nothing sha

I don't know whi the hell u tink u are maybe a graduate student or post but whatever ur opinion is keep it restricted to residential structures alone. U have to be well cooked to delve into transport, if any slight tin should go wrong u know the no of lives that will be lost? In bridge issues govt hardly care about cost my friend, they jnust want to know that u can get the job done!!!

dangoteinlaw:
yes they shall detoriate but lagos has more than enough money to maintain and rebuild more of its due, even when some are stolen. Lag is miles ahead of other shithole states

So you compare yourself with worse shitholes in order to feel good about your sorry state despite the huge budget and IGR from the people?
Is that how you make progress personally


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mamaafrik:
Two friends of mine one from SE and the other from North central brought an argument to me recently and i decided to throw it open to a wider intelligent audience about Lagos-kano and Lago_calabar rail line so i can arrive at my answer.When looking at the following factors:Economic,Financial,Tourism , Historical ,Administrative and social-cultural benefit accrued to the execution of these projects and the present factor at play of one already having an old gauge.

There is paucity of fund to face Both at a go,you can only execute one at a time ,which do you think should be executed first between Lagos-kano and Lagos-calabar route.
Let's put ourselves in our leaders shoes this time,imagine you are a a project engineer and also and project accountant at the same time.
Kindly explain reasons for your answers

For rail, I would do Lagos Kano 3X over Lagos Calabar.

From Kano, you can harmonise Agric produce and even process them and forward them to Lagos for export. They earns the country money and boosts our economy.
From the Calabar route however, movement there is import oriented. you majorly import and move to that axis without exporting anything.

Instead of rail, let the ports in Calabar be put in place to handle larger volumes of cargo and then divert those cargoes to that port.

mamaafrik:
Two friends of mine one from SE and the other from North central brought an argument to me recently and i decided to throw it open to a wider intelligent audience about Lagos-kano and Lago_calabar rail line so i can arrive at my answer.When looking at the following factors:Economic,Financial,Tourism , Historical ,Administrative and social-cultural benefit accrued to the execution of these projects and the present factor at play of one already having an old gauge.

There is paucity of fund to face Both at a go,you can only execute one at a time ,which do you think should be executed first between Lagos-kano and Lagos-calabar route.
Let's put ourselves in our leaders shoes this time,imagine you are a a project engineer and also and project accountant at the same time.
Kindly explain reasons for your answers

Lagos to Calabar first because of the trades/economy/ tourism/social culture factor and administrative.

It will serve the entire south east and port Harcourt,

But Lagos to Kano, will only serve Kano and Kaduna.
Both states don't imports up to east esp Anambra, Abia, port Harcourt, Enugu and Imo.

Even the shoes in abia and cars in Anambra can be moved outside, spare parts will be able to be imported also.

RealEzee:
The rich link Bridge actually

You're right

dangoteinlaw:
I don't know whi the hell u tink u are maybe a graduate student or post but whatever ur opinion is keep it restricted to residential structures alone. U have to be well cooked to delve into transport, if any slight tin should go wrong u know the no of lives that will be lost? In bridge issues govt hardly care about cost my friend, they jnust want to know that u can get the job done!!!

What percentage of the bullion vans contents do you get daily?
Is it up to 10% or maybe it is less than 0.0001%


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anonimi:


Can we see photos of the light rail also moving Lagosians since June 2013 when Fashola said it would start working?
Abi the billions of dollars don enter voicemail

Buhari recently completed several train stations on the Ajaokuta Itakpe, Lagos Ibadan and other rail routes, your leaders in PDP were busy fighting over naming the train stations.

GEJ your leader in PDP is Buhari's boy. Buhari is the one commissioning and naming legacies in GEJ's name since you thieves couldn't do anything in 16 years.
You are an inconsequential nobody in PDP. Keep on posting foolish pictures online when your PDP Secretariat is an incompleted building housing vagabonds.

uuzba:
The "cable" on this bridge does nothing for the bridge. It's just there to make the bridge not look boring.
How can they put cable support and still put piers under the same bridge again?
It's either one or the other. Not both

Suspension bridge with cables does not have more than 2 piers and that's for the cable support only.

Nwa Engineer. It is just there to make the bridge look boring indeed. You think the Engineers are daft? You should have read to educate yourself.

uuzba:
The "cable" on this bridge does nothing for the bridge. It's just there to make the bridge not look boring.
How can they put cable support and still put piers under the same bridge again?
It's either one or the other. Not both

Suspension bridge with cables does not have more than 2 piers and that's for the cable support only.

honestly I think its a combination of beam bridge but with column partens of a cable slayed. Offcourse there should be part of that water thats deeper than the other so the Column designs will vary depending on the differential settlements at different load concentrations.

Sammy07:



Lagos to Calabar first because of the trades/economy/ tourism/social culture factor and administrative.

It will serve the entire south east and port Harcourt,

But Lagos to Kano, will only serve Kano and Kaduna.
Both states don't imports up to east esp Anambra, Abia, port Harcourt, Enugu and Imo.

All the imports the East do, how much does it add to Nigeria's economy?
The Agric exports the North does, how much does it add to the economy?
That is the first thing to ask.

The North needs a rail line to facilitate exports so that Nigeria and Nigerians make more money.

The East needs a seaport closer home to facilitate imports. A seaport closer would also decongest Lagos.

bergs2:


@bolded.
That's the lamest thing to continue to say.

I'm sorry but no matter how hard we try not to say it, the reality remains.

uuzba:
The "cable" on this bridge does nothing for the bridge. It's just there to make the bridge not look boring.
How can they put cable support and still put piers under the same bridge again?
It's either one or the other. Not both

Suspension bridge with cables does not have more than 2 piers and that's for the cable support only.

Dey don't want 2 take any chances

IgboSomalia:
Buhari recently completed several train stations on the Ajaokuta Itakpe, Lagos Ibadan and other rail routes, your leaders in PDP were busy fighting over naming the train stations.

GEJ your leader in PDP is Buhari's boy. Buhari is the one commissioning and naming legacies in GEJ's name since you thieves couldn't do anything in 16 years.
You are an inconsequential nobody in PDP. Keep on posting foolish pictures online when your PDP Secretariat is an incompleted building housing vagabonds.

Stations are different from trains running services moving people and goods.
Don't the uneducated literates in the Association of Past Crooks, APC know that


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Aq

IgboSomalia:


All the imports the East do, how much does it add to Nigeria's economy?
The Agric exports the North does, how much does it add to the economy?
That is the first thing to ask.

The North needs a rail line to facilitate exports so that Nigeria and Nigerians make more money.

The East needs a seaport closer home to facilitate imports. A seaport closer would also decongest Lagos.

The poster said, which should come first.
If they have rail, it doesn't mean they won't have seaport.

Lagos and warri has seaports and rail.
So what are you saying?

Do you know how much federal government generates from imports?

I maintain that Lagos to Calabar should come first before Kano and Kaduna.

Nah Igbos go even use Kano and Kaduna maybe 30%

They will export items from alaba to Kano.

anonimi:

Stations are different from trains running services moving people and goods.
Don't the uneducated literates in the Association of Past Crooks, APC know that

In the 16 wasted years your worthless party ruled, how many train stations did they commission?
Were you brain dead when GEJ was thanking Buhari? Or are you higher than GEJ in your PDP?

Boy, shut up and hide your tears.

TechDaddy:
No matter how many good infrastructure Lagos puts up, they will quickly deteriorate under the weight of overpopulation.

The FG should work towards creating more commercial cities so that people can have options to go those places to trade or work. That's how economies grow!

U know Tokyo has a population of 38 million people but dey ar not complaining of over population shanghai and Beijing in China both have a population of 24 million and 22 million respectively no 1 is complaining even new york metropolitan area has a population of 20 million no 1 is complaining so I don't see how anyone would say lagos is overpopulated

Sammy07:
Aq

The poster said, which should come first.
If they have rail, it doesn't mean they won't have seaport.

Lagos and warri has seaports and rail.
So what are you saying?

Do you know how much federal government generates from imports?

I maintain that Lagos to Calabar should come first before Kano and Kaduna.

Nah Igbos go even use Kano and Kaduna maybe 30%

They will export items from alaba to Kano.

I argue based on facts not, emotions.
How would Igbos use Kaduna and Kano for Exports when the financial parameters of Kano show that Kano's Exports dwarf the Exports of the SE?
What of revenues from Kano?

Reliance on imports kill an economy, exports grow it. Any sensible government would prioritise exports over imports.

anonimi:


So you compare yourself with worse shitholes in order to feel good about your sorry state despite the huge budget and IGR from the people?
Is that how you make progress personally


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whatever bro lag takes the lead, y'all keep lagging like android phones.

Nigerian movie makers don feature this bridge tire. Big ups to fashola, completed in record time

anonimi:


So you compare yourself with worse shitholes in order to feel good about your sorry state despite the huge budget and IGR from the people?
Is that how you make progress personally


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quoting a dummy like pelosi shows how retarded u are. The tax invome in lagos alone could fuel alot mote projects as this, something ur shithole states cant imagine.

CARLOSZ:


I'm sorry but no matter how hard we try not to say it, the reality remains.

I am still quoting you:
The reality: good to say that we the young people who should be the vanguards of socioeconomic transformation are the ones allowing the status quo to continue to linger on and on.
The day we'd wake up to see all that our fathers worked for being put to shambles before our eyes, we'd realise we had met the reality and left things unturned.
My point is that the Nigeria we abuse today will turn against our children tomorrow. Facts

Most beautiful bridge in the whole West Africa
Pls they need to toll it people who live here are wealthy individuals and we need more of this infrastructure toll in rich local government in Nigeria as it’s done in Usa and Uk toll the rich

IgboSomalia:


I argue based on facts not, emotions.
How would Igbos use Kaduna and Kano for Exports when the financial parameters of Kano show that Kano's Exports dwarf the Exports of the SE?
What of revenues from Kano?

Reliance on imports kill an economy, exports grow it. Any sensible government would prioritise exports over imports.

I'm not reasoning with emotions bro.
You talk about agriculture.

South east also export agriculture.
They produce steal or so in Anambra it can be exported.
What about those in Aba, it can be exported.


If you're talking based on agricultural only.
Kano and Kaduna will beats SE.
But check the parameters the guy asked us to use.

IgboSomalia:
In the 16 wasted years your worthless party ruled, how many train stations did they commission?
Were you brain dead when GEJ was thanking Buhari? Or are you higher than GEJ in your PDP?
Boy, shut up and hide your tears.

Only incompetent illiterates commission stations instead of train services carrying people and cargos.
What kind of person hails such incompetence

nawtyme:
Previous Govts Initiated ‘Most Of The Things This Administration Is Doing’ – Adesina


A majority of the projects the Muhammadu Buhari administration is working on was inherited from previous administrations, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity has said.

Mr Femi Adesina said this when he appeared on Channels Television’s special Independence anniversary programme on Sunday.

“Most of the things this administration is doing – 60 to 70 percent of them – were initiated by previous governments,” he said.

“That shows you that in the past a government will come and say ‘this is not our project’ And it will discard what was being done and start fresh ones.”

As a result, Mr Adesina said there are many half and quarter-completed abandoned projects.
But rather than abandon the project, he explained that the current administration will complete it.

An example is the Abuja-Kaduna rail project which the Presidential aide said was up to maybe 60 to 70 percent complete when the last administration left.

https://www.channelstv.com/2017/10/01/previous-govts-initiated-most-of-the-things-this-administration-is-doing-adesina/

shift15:
My trip to Abuja-Kaduna Rail Project.
You can be the judge....
Dec. 28, 2014


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CARLOSZ:
More.

CC lalasticlala mynd44

Why didn't you show the toll gate?

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chukwuibuipob:
EKO ONI BAJE oooo.Ile Omo k'aro ojire Oni daru oooo.,Tiwa n Tiwa no tiiti If E pain u,kindly jump/dive inside Niger bridge water

Have you eaten today ?

Or you wan chop Bridge ?

SmartPolician:


Why didn't you show the toll gate?

.

The toll gate is not the bridge

mamaafrik:
Two friends of mine one from SE and the other from North central brought an argument to me recently and i decided to throw it open to a wider intelligent audience about Lagos-kano and Lago_calabar rail line so i can arrive at my answer.When looking at the following factors:Economic,Financial,Tourism , Historical ,Administrative and social-cultural benefit accrued to the execution of these projects and the present factor at play of one already having an old gauge.

There is paucity of fund to face Both at a go,you can only execute one at a time ,which do you think should be executed first between Lagos-kano and Lagos-calabar route.
Let's put ourselves in our leaders shoes this time,imagine you are a a project engineer and also and project accountant at the same time.
Kindly explain reasons for your answers

It's a no brainer, Lagos-kano definitely.
Rail is primarily for transporting cargo; passenger transportation is secondary.
What sense does it make to transport cargo via rail from one coastal city to another when seaports in the other coastal cities can easily solve that?
That's why the British built the Lagos-kano and PH-Maiduguri narrow gauge rail lines to link the seaports to the hinterlands, and not Lagos-Calabar which should come after linking the hinterlands first.

This can only be a topic in a failed country like Nigeria where seaports in Warri, PH and Calabar don't function due to various stupid reasons.