Offpoint:

Each time I reply your comment I lost an IQ... good day sir.

Then it means your IQ needs recharging.
Imagine your IQ meter telling you .Please Recharge as soon as possible.
Low Brain

LogicStatement:
Lagos roads are too congested already resulting in traffic and waste of man hours. Introducing new buses to add to the existing traffic gridlock is compounding the problem we are yet to solve. A simple solution to ease traffic in Lagos roads and move mass number of people easily and comfortably is to construct a fast light rail system connecting major points in the city. The rail should connect Ikorodu to the Island, Island to Epe, Badagry to Oshodi. This is long overdue.

In addition to this, is to have large car park like 10 floors made of steel, jus' like the one @ ikoyi club...it should b constructed around oworonsoki or ogudu axis...where people park there cars and get on board ferries to island....jetties must b constructed also & d lagoon should be buoyed by expert in navigation.... all these can be achieved through PPP without LASG spending a penny...The problem with motorist and commuters in Lagos is not only bad roads or inadequate buses...but one thing LAWLESSNESS & bad driving culture

9jaRealist:


NURTW will not be operating these buses.

Nonetheless, the state would still need their buy-in/cooperation (unless it wants to see a repeat of the massive sabotage of the Cleaner Lagos Initiative and Visionscape by the politically-connected PSPs). Accordingly, one of the reasons that these buses have not been deplored since their arrival is that NURTW-member drivers/conductors (who will be uniformed with visible IDs) are being trained/retrained to work in the private companies that will operate these buses. It may not be optimal, but hopefully it’s a pragmatic solution that will work.

Well, fair enough

komodapson:


In addition to this, is to have large car park like 10 floors made of steel, jus' like the one @ ikoyi club...it should b constructed around oworonsoki or ogudu axis...where people park there cars and get on board ferries to island....jetties must b constructed also & d lagoon should be buoyed by expert in navigation.... all these can be achieved through PPP without LASG spending a penny...The problem with motorist and commuters in Lagos is not only bad roads or inadequate buses...but one thing LAWLESSNESS & bad driving culture

Absolutely right! Water transportation will help ease transportation in Lagos only if it can be effectively managed as you have stated. Lagos is a mega city and it's expected that these things should have been in place by now, for God sake, this is 2019.

9jaRealist:



While the optimal mass transit system for huge cities are rail systems, but even then buses have an important role to play...
Meanwhile, in Lagos, until the Blue and Red lines (and any other future rail lines) are completed improving bus transportation is vital.

Have they started constructing Lagos light rail system?

Babysho:


Lol this thing wey you talk. Person papa talk am when e just marry. Now e don get grey hair.

Na slow minded dimwits dey incharge walai. Nigeria is just going forth and back. Such archaic developments. Nairobi has a high speed train and the population is slightly above three million. It's unbelievable that there's not a single train in Lagos. A city inhabited by eighteen million people! Eighteen million!

E tire me too. But you will always hear them say "Lagos is a mega city", a mega city without a fast train in 2019 lol

Offpoint:

I'm not against buses, I'm against their visionlessness. Ten years to now they'll still be chunking buses out, instead of them to go back to the drawing board and do their homeworks they'll always want the easiest way out.

It hurts me these guys spend their holidays in the western world, but fall blind to all the good things they see there.

But Lagos is already building mass transit rail (albeit it seems to be taking forever) and mapping out/dredging ferry routes (after fighting with the federal government’s NIWA for jurisdiction), so the prospect of viable inter-modal public transportation seems close enough to fruition.

LogicStatement:
Have they started constructing Lagos light rail system?

Yes, they have been working on the first line (the Blue Line), although it’s dragged on much longer than anticipated, while they have finally secured the right of way for the second line (the Red Line) after years of negotiations with a politically-hostile federal government.

LogicStatement:

E tire me too. But you will always hear them say "Lagos is a mega city", a mega city without a fast train in 2019 lol

The term “mega city” merely refers to population (usually over 10 million residents), and while some misinformed members of the Nigerian press and even some Lagos officials misapply the term, Lagos is already by definition a mega city.

BTW, Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, is another mega city without a mass transit rail line. Like Lagos, it is currently building a Light Rail project scheduled for completion at about the same time as the new projected completion date for Lagos’ Blue Line (2021/22).

komodapson:
In addition to this, is to have large car park like 10 floors made of steel, jus' like the one @ ikoyi club...it should b constructed around oworonsoki or ogudu axis...where people park there cars and get on board ferries to island....jetties must b constructed also & d lagoon should be buoyed by expert in navigation.... all these can be achieved through PPP without LASG spending a penny...The problem with motorist and commuters in Lagos is not only bad roads or inadequate buses...but one thing LAWLESSNESS & bad driving culture

This is already underway at Oworonsoki (or at least was underway under Ambode, not sure what Sanwo-Olu will make of it). That’s what the massive reclamation project at Oworonsoki was all about. The plan is to construct a mega ferry terminal and a mega ferry terminal (preferably under a PPP arrangement), with shopping and entertainment facilities, and maybe someday in the distant future, a mass rail spur/connection.

Babysho:
Lol this thing wey you talk. Person papa talk am when e just marry. Now e don get grey hair.

Na slow minded dimwits dey incharge walai. Nigeria is just going forth and back. Such archaic developments. Nairobi has a high speed train and the population is slightly above three million. It's unbelievable that there's not a single train in Lagos. A city inhabited by eighteen million people! Eighteen million!

With prejudice, Nairobi does NOT have high-speed intracity mass transit rail.

What some erroneously refer to as the “Nairobi High-Speed Rail” is actually the new Nairobi-to-Mombasa standard gauge rail line, which is in all material respect similar to the ongoing new Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail line. These INTERCITY (as opposed to intracity) rail lines have been colloquially referred to as line “high-speed” because they will each be faster than the old narrow gauge lines, but neither line is technically a high-speed (or “bullet”) line (and while Nairobi-Mombasa clocks in at 120km/h, which is even lower than Abuja-Kaduna’s 130km/h, the Lagos-Ibadan line is projected to clock in at about 150km/h although I am personally a bit skeptical about that projection).

Meanwhile, Nairobi is currently looking to refurbish it old standard gauge commuter rail that is similar to the limited Lagos commuter rail service currently provided by the NRC. Furthermore, Nairobi recently sent its officials to Lagos to study the Lagos BRT system with an eye towards instituting a similar system in Nairobi (btw, only one of several African countries that have come to Lagos to study the BRT system).

ednut1:
Come back in 2021 and see how those buses woukd look. Bad road everywhere how would they last

2021 sef too far.
Mid 2020