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LRT


Lagos-Badagry Expressway before the rail project.
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Artist impression of Lagos-Badagry Expressway after the rail project is completed.
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10 lanes + BRT and LRT.

Marina before the rail project
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Artist impression of Marina after the rail project is completed.
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Rail, BRT, regular bus and ferry services.

The Lagos Rail Transit (LRT) system will be similar to the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system in the sense that the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) will build and maintain the tracks, while the concessionaire will procure and maintain the trains.

Already, the concessionaire on the blue line has procured carriages from Canada (they were subway trains, but have been converted to surface trains). Lagos State Government will build a dedicated independent power plant to provide electricity to the system.

The Blue Line.

The Lagos-Badagry Expressway is part of the abandoned Trans-African Highway project. However, it is prone to massive traffic jams. This has stunted development along that corridor since people don't want to live and work in that area because of the traffic problems.

Therefore, the Lagos State Government is expanding the road. It will be a 10 lane expressway with BRT and LRT routes. Julius Berger is expanding the road (so far they've expanded the road between Orile and Mile 2 and expanded the Mile 2 Bridge), while Chinese Civil Engineering and Construction Company (CCECC) is laying the tracks. It's largely going to be an elevated rail system (CCECC has built part oof the bridge along the Orile axis and they are also building elevated stations from Orile too Mile 2).

Blue line stations will include:

1) Marina

2) Ebutte Ero

3) Iddo

4) National Theatre

5) Iganmu

6) Alaba

7) Mile 2

8 ) Festac

9) Alakija (Satellite Town)

10) Trade Fair Complex

11) Volkswagen

12) Lasu Gate

13) Okokomaiko.


Red Line stations include:

1) Marina

2) Ebutte Ero

3) Iddo

4) Ebutte Metta

5) Yaba

6) Jibowu

7) Mushin

8 ) Oshodi

9) Shogunle

10) Murtala Mohammed Airport (an arm of the line will branch off to the airport)

11) Ikeja

12) Agege

13) Iju

14) Agbado


Blue line station map
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Red line station map
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LRT overall map
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Lamata has proposed 7 lines. They are:

1) Blue line: Okokomaiko-Marina
2) Red Line: Agbado-MMIA-Marina
3) Green Line: Lekki Airport-Marina
4) Yellow Line: Otta-Iddo
5) Purple Line: Redeemed Camp-Ojo
6) Brown Line: Mile 12 - Marina
7) Orange Line: Redeemed Camp-Marina


Below is an overview of the project from Wikipedia.


Lagos Light Rail is a light rail system being developed in Lagos, Nigeria. The system is being sponsored by the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) and is envisioned to consist eventually of seven lines.[1] The railway equipment including electric power, signalling, rolling stock, and fare collection equipment will be provided by the private sector under a Concession Contract. LAMATA is responsible for policy direction, regulation, and infrastructure for the network.[2] The concessionaire will generate its own dedicated electricity.[3]

History

The idea of developing rapid transit in Lagos dates from the 1980s with the Lagos Metroline network conceived by the Alhaji Lateef Jakande during the Nigerian Second Republic.[4] The initial Metroline project was scrapped in 1985 by Muhammadu Buhari at a loss of over $78 million to the Lagos tax payers.[5] The idea of developing a light rail network for Lagos was revived by Governor Bola Tinubu in the early 2000s with a formal announcement of its construction in December 2003.[6] This initial $135 million proposal was part of the greater Lagos Urban Transportation Project to be implemented by the newly formed Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA).[6] LAMATA initially concentrated on developing a Bus Rapid Transit system, running from Mile 12 to Lagos Island. In 2008, LAMATA began also to make progress with the rail project, focussing initially on the Blue Line and the Red Line.

In September 2011, LAMATA announced that it would be acquring its older H5 and H6 subway cars from the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), a public transit operator based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, (as their transit operator is acquring its new articulated six-car fixed Toronto Rocket subway cars to replace the older cars) for its fleet of subway cars that would operate on the Blue and Red lines. [7]

Okokomaiko-Marina Blue Line

In April 2008, the Lagos State Government approved ₦ 70 billion for construction of the Okokomaiko-Iddo-Marina Line, with an estimated completion date of 2011.[2] Advisory services are being provided by CPCS Transcom Limited, an Infrastructure Development consulting firm based in Ottawa, Canada. Construction actually commenced in January 2010, and completion is now expected in 2015. The Blue Line is now being built by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation. The Blue Line will run 27.5 km from Marina to Okokomaiko, with 13 stations. End-to-end journey time will be approximately 35 minutes. It is being built as a high capacity, electrically powered rail mass transit system. Most of the route will be on the surface, running east-west, in the central reservation of the rebuilt Badagry Expressway between Igbo-Elerin Road (Okokomaiko) and Iganmu. The line will run on elevated structure from Iganmu along the south side of the expressway passing the junction with Eric Moore Road, crossing just south of the National Theatre to Iddo, then south to Lagos Island with a terminal at Marina. Construction is underway between National Theatre and Mile 2.,A Maintenance and Storage Facility (MSF) will be constructed at Okokomaiko, with a track connection from the Blue Line to the depot. The entire Blue Line will operate over a secure and exclusive right-of-way, with no level crossings and no uncontrolled access by pedestrians or vehicles. Lagos State is financing construction of the Blue Line from its own resources. A concession contract is being awarded to finance, supply and operate the railway equipment, including electric power, signalling, trains, and fare collection.

Proposed Blue Line Stations

Marina (shared with Red Line)

Ebute Ero (shared with Red Line)

Iddo (shared with Red Line)

National Theatre

Iganmu

Alaba

Mile 2

Festac

Alakija

Trade Fair

Volkswagen

LASU

Okokonaiko

Agbado-Marina Red Line

The second line, the Red Line, will run from Marina to Agbado. The line will share the existing 30 metre wide Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) right-of-way.[1]

Proposed Red Line stations

Marina (shared with Blue Line)

Ebute Ero (shared with Blue Line)

Iddo (shared with Blue Line)

Ebute Metta

Yaba

Jibouw

Mushin

Oshodi

Shogunie

Ikeja

Agege

Iju

Agbado

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos_Light_Rail

Construction
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Trains
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More info on these threads
https://www.nairaland.com/898591/fashola-woos-foreign-investment-partners

https://www.nairaland.com/934481/update-10-lane-lagos-badagry-expressway-pictures

https://www.nairaland.com/770192/hundreds-light-rail-trains-left

https://www.nairaland.com/955955/orile-light-rail-station-complete

hischoice: Today, the Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola will be at Orile, site of the first terminus of the 10 Lane Lagos-Badagry expressway to oversee the ceremony marking the commencement of the Rail track work, which in design, is to run through the middle of the 10 lanes pushing 5 lines each to ints right and its left.

In preparation for the Governor’s visit, a 200 meter “dummy” rail track has been laid on site. It is speculated that a small train placed on the track is expected to journey the Governor through the track length.

The China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) has been appointed as the contractor for the construction of the first line (Blue). The contract includes the basic design and construction of the rail infrastructure. The CCECC is constructing the Blue Line in two phases. The first phase includes the National Theatre to Mile 2 section, while the second phase includes the Mile 2 to Okokomaiko section.

Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, at a briefing in July 2012, assured that Governor Babatunde Fashola’s administration would bequeath to residents a first-class transnational 58.425 km highway by 2015.


To get live updates from the today’s ceremony, follow @daEngineerNet on Twitter.
View more photos from the ceremony here http://go.engineer-ng.net/photo/albums/ceremony-marking-the-commencement-of-railtrack-construction-on

ba7man: I still can't see what fashola is doin in Lagos, the pictures are likely photoshoped. SMH for ACN propaganda. He should pay a visit to Delta state and see the great works the Governor is doin there.

oremisussan:
That you don't seem to see what the Governor is doing shouldn't be anyone's headache. But it raises so much concern when you say these pics you and I are seeing have entered and come out of photoshop.
Receive your sight in Jesus Name

ba7man: On the contrary, it raises my own concern to know that you can't detect the whiff of "sarcasm" in my post.

hischoice: .
Today, the Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola will be at Orile, site of the first terminus of the 10 Lane Lagos-Badagry expressway to oversee the ceremony marking the commencement of the Rail track work

Sunny_bobo:

Dummy tracks? Choi! LWKMD

This ACN goons and their propaganda sef. The man knows that real tracks are not likely to be laid under his administration, that's why he is commissioning dummy tracks to once again fool the ngbatis. American wonder!!!

oremisussan:
Now that was very "dull" of me. I apologize.
I think the Governor is working but typical of a Nigerian politician, in the name of consolidating on first term achievements, they just don't hit that note in their second term.
Once again, I apologize.

ba7man: You will choke on your own vomit right here on Nairaland when the project is completed well b4 2015. Lagos is moving faster than Nigeria can comprehend. Wait, which one do u think is harder to do?? The construction of the elevated platform that carries the rail or laying of tracks?? At this rate, sections will be operational b4 this year runs out.

koruji: Leave the fool alone.
It is actually not a "dummy" per se, but a real track and a real engine.
I read that they will be using the train as they lay the tracks to ensure that these are perfectly aligned for the actual train.

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Rhino.5dm:
This kind news dey give all these internet mongrels sleepless night. Eko oni ba je

omiobo: This project is not for the poor is for rich people in Orile,okokomaiko,alaba suru,ojo,masamasa. Fashola hate the poor. The project must be in Lekki
Fashola!!! You much joor for haters to bring you down

omiobo: This project is not for the poor is for rich people in Orile,okokomaiko,alaba suru,ojo,masamasa. Fashola hate the poor. The project must be in Lekki
Fashola!!! You much joor for haters to bring you down

Eko Ile:

lol... This project has no human face, it's not for the masses, it's only for the elites in VI/Ikoyi/Lekki.

Boya lo mo. We will leave Ikoyi every morning and drive to Orile to take a train to Festac and from Festac another chauffeured car will be waiting to take us to MMIA. It's not for the poor o jare.

geeez:

Boya lo mo. We will leave Ikoyi every morning and drive to Orile to take a train to Festac and from Festac another chauffeured car will be waiting to take us to MMIA. It's not for the poor o jare.

Eko Ile:


lmao...this is too funny.

Even the hundreds of workers working on this projects and collecting paychecks to house and feed their families are the Elites..

The least paid bricklayer lives in a serviced flat in VI. The elites are the ones scorching under the sun with shovels in their hands and sipping on Moët when thirsty. One GM in a bank resigned his appointment to become a crane operator. They won't accept you as a ad hoc staff or staff unless you drive a Ferrari. It's just to make the rich richer while the poor people watch on the sidelines and don't have the opportunity to earn a salary or experience working on the project. How sad?

ba7man: I still can't see what fashola is doin in Lagos, the pictures are likely photoshoped. SMH for ACN propaganda. He should pay a visit to Delta state and see the great works the Governor is doin there.