grafikii:
Yeah we used to have a lot of these till some people started stealing them to be melted to other things (you know who) . Metal covers are the best solution for Lagos roads.

Kairoseki77:

So you are saying these same people will steal the covers and then complain of open gutter?

Na wa o!

Kairoseki77:

They are the exact same thing.

Rossikk: What I see are people blaming the public for the open gutter syndrome. It's absolutely dumb to do this and merely encourages the govt to keep being negligent. This idea of showing a few pavements covered with metal grates is a joke. 99% of pavements/sidewalks in New York, London etc do NOT have those things. The pavements are simply made with concrete throughout (not with concrete 'slabs' that can be opened), and the water seeps in through tiny square side vents by the pavement like this:

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The actual gutter is built right alongside the adjoining kerb, so when there's a flow problem they simply open a vent, fix, and cover back.

Simple, clean, no need for constant ''maintenance'', and no risk of anyone dumping trash into anywhere.

Why can't we do this?

Uyi Iredia: @Rossikk: Just took this at Simbiat Abiola Way, Ikeja. It comes close to what you say, though there's no kerb.

Jakumo: To all the die-hard Nigerian PATRIOTS, here is a simple English language lesson to tickle your grey matter.

An OPEN gutter or drain, such as is the case all over Nigeria, is by definition WITHOUT a cover of ANY sort, meaning that if you step into it, you are likely to fall and bust your phucking head open, or at least break your femur and most likely die from blood loss, because NONE of those "sympathizers" gathered in a throng to comment on your fate will raise a phucking finger to help you in any way.

A COVERED gutter or drain is COVERED with a metal grate, as in the pictures of New York streets that have been helpfully posted above by the Nigerian PARTIOTS. Step on such a grate while walking down the street, and you will notice that you do NOT fall and suffer major medical trauma that requires a visit to the emergency room, as would have certainly been the case if there were NO cover to make safe that gaping hole in the street.

Finally, an UNDERGROUND sewage or drainage tunnel is UNDERGROUND, and therefore INVISIBLE to people walking at street level. Walking along the street many feet above an UNDERGROUND sewage tunnel is PERFECTLY SAFE, since there is NO gaping hole in which to fall.

Now that the distiction between the words "COVERED" and "UNCOVERED" have been explained in layman's terms, we will move ahead and cover fractions and decimals for the rest of today's lesson, if the PATRIOTS think they can comprehend such complexities.

On second thoughts, class dismissed.

Kairoseki77:

You sound like a mumu.

It is obvious that the gutters in Lagos are not covered. It has been explained repeatedly that the gutters in Lagos were built with covers, but that they have been stolen and not maintained.

Additionally, you were blatantly wrong when you said that open drainage exists only in "third world countries". The same exact drainage system exists all over the world. And your definitions of an open drainage system is horribly wrong. An open drainage system (gutter), is one that is exposed to air, it doesn't matter whether it is covered by a grate. You honestly need to do some research about the topic you are discussing before writing such flamboyant posts, because you have just made an a55 of yourself.

Now enjoy the celebration of the true PARTIOTS who will "like" your ignorant nonsense because it is anti-Lagos and anti-Yoruba.

Meanwhile, people who enjoy living in reality and dealing with facts will resume talking about this issue with less arrogance and factually incorrect noisemaking.

Uyi Iredia: @Rossikk: Just took this at Simbiat Abiola Way, Ikeja. It comes close to what you say, though there's no kerb.

Rossikk: You are the one yarning dust. What the hell do you mean by "the gutters in Lagos were built with covers which were later stolen"? In those Kingston pics, do you see anything there that can be "stolen" by anyone? Is it not when you build substandard rubbish like slabs, instead of a proper sidewalk, that anyone can just lift and walk off with the stuff, and then you complain it was "stolen"?

Kairoseki77:

Kingston obviously uses a different system.

If we are talking about an open drainage system, then we must compare with other open drainage systems before we say that they ONLY exist in third world countries.

Can you steal the grates in NYC, YES!

Why?

Because they have an open drainage system like we do in Lagos. I have no idea what they do in Kingston, and don't really care.

If you think we should CHANGE to Kingston's system, that is different. But comparing the two is ridiculous and pointless.

naptu2: Second set of pics. This is Admiralty Road in Lekki. There are concrete slabs covering the gutter.

Kairoseki77:

Another thing that we need is statewide waterworks. No one is running anything resembling a modern underground sewer system without an electrically powered, pressurized, water system.

For that we need power and a LOT of money. Fashola is building waterworks now that are powered by independent power projects, but I don't think he has started building the pipe system.

I think the recent water project brings the total to 100 million gallons a day or something like that?

naptu2: The very last pic.

naptu2: So the question is, why can't we have the same design. These pictures were taken just a few metres away from each other.

I'd like to see a system in which all gutters look like the gutter in the last set of pictures. Yet some roads are being built at the moment with the same design that we have in the first set of pics.