babyosisi: [size=18pt]]Somebody quote me in 20 years,this will remain at the "to" level
It will never take off
It will never work
It will be a colossal waste
Na wetin dem go use power am?
It is the most stupid idea ever proposed
Who uses cable cars for commuter transport?
Someone went to a ski resort and came back with a fancy idea for a city of 20 million?
Whoever brought this up in the house for discussion needs to be shot[/size]

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Fashola give the people constant light and water
Do those two and you would have done well,stop all the cheap propaganda,e don do [/size]

Okon ikott: In case of power outage, it would be better to hang in the air where you sure will enjoy freshair and an aerial view of Lagos until power is restored and the skyride continues, than be crushed on the road in a car/okada accident that will earn you broken limbs and bruised face if you are ever so lucky. If the cable car project in Obudu ranch was an experimental thing and it has sofar not reported any fall or failures, the story cannot be diierent in Lagos. Let the cable ride go on jare.

JomoGbomo2: Great idea, however if this will be powered by electricity I will "personnally" prefer to drive.......maybe until we get this electricity thingy right.

karl max: So lagos state now owns ropeway transport limited? Una dey very funny sha!lwkmd

CohenJane:

You are right bro. Thumbs up for you.

Some folks in ma family have been making life hell for me just because I want to pursue my dream by being self employed ... my fiance too is not helping matters. But I will follow my dream, no matter what.

today's empire were yesterday's idea and dream

Josh090:
Yes yes yes....but fashola can't give you light, sorry.

sweet_gala:

Obudu does not have 20 moillion citizens. These cable cars need to be able to handle over 3million people daily.

OCHULORC: Eko ile.....we pity your family for a reason

aribisala0: S tupid idea!. Not necessary,too expensive and unlikely to have any impact on Lagos's population. There are too many instances of people using Okada when they should be walking. Even in the most advanced Places with buses and underground systems you still have to walk.
I believe Okada is okay for personal use but not commercial.
Any person that wants Okada should learn how to ride one and buy one and there should be no ban on personal usage.

Did I hear you say that will be abused? It is not difficult to police. When caught seize the bike and fine the Customer and do not allow anyone to hang around waiting for fares to pick up. Alternatively there are many single passenger motorbikes and those should be exempt from the ban or just make it illegal for more than one person to ride on a motorbike.

talktimi: Upon the many times you've insulted me on nairaland, I can't help but agree with you on this instance which is what I've been advocating since the ban on okada plying certain routes kicked off. The most annoying part for me is the arrest of our uniformed personel for plying the restricted routes but you sort of hit the nail on the proper part of the head by saying private single passenger bikes should be exempt from this ban.

Eko Ile:


This is obviously not designed to handle 3 million people or whatever bogus number of people you made up, there are other modes of transportation like the metro rail, ferry service, BRT and Lagbus under construction and provision to handle the big load, this is a component of the whole transportation system designed to compliment the other modes.


This is pretty much common sense.

scorpidmo: cable cars are used in brazilian fervelas which are more densely populated than any place in Lagos, so why can't it work here.
just because Lagos state government is investing in cable cars doesn't mean she can't also invest in bullet trains cos there's nothing like over development

Negro_Ntns: nooooooo, noooooo!!!

this is bad idea! this is like laying tracks for trams, except instead of on surface we are suspending it in the sky. this is bad idea. how do you combine fast tracks planned for the metro rails with outdated drags?

let us expand development hinterland into yoruba townships instead of wasting money in one spot to construct multi layers of redundant projects.

Eko Ile please share with the Governor to convert this money and erect a parallel fast track to compete wit
h nigerian railway corporation. we need to depopulate lagos. people can live in oyo and commute daily to lagos to work. it is possible for people in osun to commute back and forth daily to lagos. it is called speed train or bullet train. sky cable cars will only incite the remaining millions left in villages to troop into lagos and be part of the skyriding crowd.

bad bad bad policy on this one......scrap it!

sweet_gala:

I'm giving you an engineering perspective ,and that rather otherwise bogus number was born of that opinion. You would need to over engineer such a facility, Lagos is a still developing hub and as such the requirements of a permanent public structure need be robust for future demands.
You also have the issue of flash overpopulation of areas due to events which might put a heavy burden on the system. A temporary need to double the number of cars on the line can arise.

[size=14pt]Lagos to get cable car mass transit system by 2015[/size]

Sunday, 03 February 2013 00:00 Editor Business Services - Business News

FOR the first time in the history of Nigeria, a cable car company, Ropeways Transport Limited, is set to launch a cable car mass urban transit system in the nation’s commercial capital, Lagos.

This followed the signing of a 30-year franchise agreement between Ropeways Transport Limited, the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) and the Lagos State government recently.

Under the terms of the agreement, Ropeways Transport will this November begin the construction of towers, stations and connecting network cables along various routes covered in the first phase of the project, namely, Ijora – Iddo, Iddo – Adeniji; Apapa – Oluwole, Oluwole – Adeniji, Adeniji – Obalende, Obalende – Falomo, and Falomo – Victoria Island. The project is expected to be fully completed and commissioned by early 2015.

Speaking on this development the Chief Executive Officer of Ropeways Transport Limited, Capt. Dapo Olumide expressed his belief that the Lagos cable car transit system would provide an alternative means of mass transportation in the city and it will help ease the current transportation hassles in Lagos and help restore dignity to commuting because the current situation hampers economic development within the city and negatively impacts the quality of life of it’s residents.

“By complementing existing transport modes, the Lagos cable car transit System will play its part in reducing the traffic congestion in the city,” he said.

According to him, studies show that Lagos will become the world’s 3rd largest city with 25million inhabitants by 2015, with approximately 12 million daily passenger movements and trips in the Lagos Metropolitan Area, set to increase at a rate of six per cent per annum.

“The existing metropolitan highway infrastructure is severely constrained, with journeys to and from work within the city regularly exceeding three hours.

“In addition, studies carried out in 2009 on vehicle registration shows that an additional 200,000 vehicles are registered annually in Lagos State. This equates to 222 vehicles per kilometer of road in Lagos, which by far, outweighs the national average of just 11vehicles per kilometer of road, with vehicles estimated to contribute more than 70 per cent of the ambient air pollution in Lagos,” he said.

These problems, he said, can be effectively eliminated with this new technology.

“Presently, there is need to ameliorate the existing congestion on the three bridges connecting Lagos Mainland to Lagos Island and to provide a link between Apapa and the Central Business District on Lagos Island, and also to link Victoria Island with the Central Business District of Lagos Island. These are what we hope to achieve with the launch of the cable transit system,” Olumide said.

On the safety of the cable car system, the Ropeways CEO described it as one of the safest means of transport worldwide.A 2009 study by the Vancouver Metropolitan Transport Agency in Canada determined that passengers are 20,000 times more likely to be involved in a fatal accident in a vehicle than in a cable car.

According to him, when completed, the Lagos Cable Car Transit system will incorporate several standard safety features, including auxiliary drives and hydraulic brakes to prevent passengers being stranded, lightening protection on towers, ropes and stations, as well as, solar panels on each cabin roof to provide power for cabin interior and exterior lighting. There will also be passenger monitoring with CCTV and audio communication links and passenger address systems.

 

 

The project will be powered by several sources namely, IPP’s, dual-fired primary power turbines and dual-fired back up power turbines with sufficient numbers of static inverters to provide 30 minutes of backup power.

The project uses Doppelmayr’s proprietary technology. Founded in 1892, Doppelmayr is a Swiss/Austrian specialist company that manufactures chairlifts, cable cars, gondolas, surface tows for ski and amusement parks as well as urban transport systems.

Doppelmayr cable car technology has successfully been used in locations like Merida, Venezuela, Roosevelt Island, New York, U.S.A, Caracas, Venezuela, Medellin, Columbia, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A and Tlemcen, Algeria.

Others are Constantine, Algeria, Koblenz, Germany, Ngong Ping, Hong Kong, Sentosa Island, Singapore and Sky Rail, Australia.

The company is also presently executing similar projects in Bosporus, Turkey, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, La Paz, Bolivia and recently in London, England.

Bliss4Lyfe: Bad idea for everyday use considering Nigeria maintenance culture. Fashola has truily lost direction with his copy-cat approach to development. Those things are ideal for tourist resort not mass transportation.

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