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Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Nobody: 8:22pm On Jan 06, 2014 |
atlwireles:standard guage in what year? BTW which hero are you talking about? Can you tell us which country is currently rehabilitating narrow guage 1 Like |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Nobody: 8:29pm On Jan 06, 2014 |
ol boy, yeye dey smell. come 2015 we shall bundle jonaman out of Aso rock. 2 Likes |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Horus(m): 8:34pm On Jan 06, 2014 |
You call that "Wheelbarrow" a train?. Bwahahahahaha! 3 Likes |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Nobody: 8:39pm On Jan 06, 2014 |
Obiagelli:The bigger the challenge and work to be done, the bigger the resources. So no excuses for a state govt that failed woefully in 8 years. If Jakande could start it in the 80s, then Tinubu has no excuses 3 Likes |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Nobody: 8:41pm On Jan 06, 2014 |
Tadon200: ol boy, yeye dey smell. come 2015 we shall bundle jonaman out of Aso rock.You'r not even sure you'll be alive in 2015 let alone looking for how to bundle another man. It is only the living that can dream of doing that. 1 Like |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by atlwireles: 8:44pm On Jan 06, 2014 |
Obiagelli: Successful narrow gauge railway The heavy duty 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge railways in Australia (e.g. Queensland), South Africa and New Zealand show that if the track is built to a heavy-duty standard, performance almost as good as a standard gauge line is possible. 200-car trains operate on the Sishen-Saldanha railway in South Africa, and high-speed tilt-trains in Queensland (see below). Another example of a heavy-duty narrow gauge line is EFVM in Brazil. 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) gauge, it has over-100-pound rail (100 lb/yd or 49.6 kg/m) and a loading gauge almost as large as US non-excess-height lines. It sees multiple 4,000 hp (3,000 kW) locomotives and 200+ car trains. In South Africa and New Zealand, the loading gauge is similar to the restricted British loading gauge, and in New Zealand some British Rail Mark 2 carriages have been rebuilt with new bogies for use by Tranz Scenic (Wellington-Palmerston North service), Tranz Metro (Wellington-Masterton service) and Veolia (Auckland suburban services). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow_gauge_railway 2 Likes |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Nobody: 8:44pm On Jan 06, 2014 |
Sincere 9gerian:Are you mentally unstable or what? 4 Likes |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Nobody: 9:03pm On Jan 06, 2014 |
atlwireles:I can't seem to make sense out this post, all of I see is heavy duty carriages cargo and they have been modified to match or even better standard gauge. Don't tell me you are comparing this to Gej's. I asked for countries doing same as gej. |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Nobody: 9:03pm On Jan 06, 2014 |
Sincere 9gerian:LOL see frustration, has it come to this? 3 Likes |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by ba7man(m): 9:11pm On Jan 06, 2014 |
Sincere 9gerian:Stop repeating this your lie or else you'll have to show us the design and site work done back in 1983 to butress your lie. 2 Likes |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Nobody: 9:23pm On Jan 06, 2014 |
ba7man: Stop repeating this your lie or else you'll have to show us the design and site work done back in 1983 to butress your lie.Gbam |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Nobody: 9:51pm On Jan 06, 2014 |
Tadon200:I'm sorry but you'r the mentally unstable character here. What I stated was a statement of FACT for all human being. 3 Likes |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Nobody: 10:09pm On Jan 06, 2014 |
ba7man: Stop repeating this your lie or else you'll have to show us the design and site work done back in 1983 to butress your lie.What I dont do on NL is tell lies. Jakande started the process of building a Lagos metro rail line. In the report below, Buhari was explaining why he stopped the project. The project was conceptualised and designed by Jakande but the process had to be "terminated" by Buhari. So do you terminate what has not started? Sincere 9gerian: The Lagos metro rail line was designed by the Jakande government to facilitate transportation within Lagos and surroundings but was terminated when Buhari military regime took over in December, I983.In the report below, Jakande personally explained what happened. Note that contract for the project was already awarded. However, release of funds was frustrated by Shagari for political reasons. Sincere 9gerian: Jakande, who made the disclosure at his Ilupeju residence in Lagos while speaking with newsmen as part of activities marking his 80th birthday, said it was Shagari, whom he described as a good friend, that ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) not to release N70 million mobilisation fund for the metro line project. According to him, "President Shagari was angry for two reasons. First, I did not congratulate him on his re-election in 1983. Second, he stopped the fund because I was not his party member"The project would have been completed in 2 years going by what Jakande said here. |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Nobody: 10:11pm On Jan 06, 2014 |
Obiagelli: This woman, are you allergic to progress? Rome was not built in a day. You don't expect Jonathan to perform voodoo wonder on 35 years of destruction caused by our former inept leaders. |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Ayekotoo(m): 10:32pm On Jan 06, 2014 |
Sincere 9gerian:maybe we should abandon this thread- topic and turn it to Jonathan vs Tinubu as governors of their respective states within one year. |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Ayekotoo(m): 10:35pm On Jan 06, 2014 |
Obiagelli:I tire for these guys. They are now comparing stare resources with that of the federal government. |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Ayekotoo(m): 10:38pm On Jan 06, 2014 |
Sincere 9gerian:how come your PDP led government in Akwa Ibom can't start one after 14 years rule with the largest budget in Nigeria par little population? according to you |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Ayekotoo(m): 10:45pm On Jan 06, 2014 |
Sincere 9gerian:same thing Jonathan did but systematically approved the loan one year to the general elections knowing fully well it will be used against him in 2015 campaign |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Nobody: 10:47pm On Jan 06, 2014 |
Ayekotoo:We cannot stop comparison. We need to know where we'r coming from to appreciate where are today and to avoid the mistakes of the past. If you say what has been done is not good enough, then show us what is good enough in what APC leaders who have had opportunities in past did. |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by agabaI23(m): 12:06am On Jan 07, 2014 |
Obiagelli:Did he stop/sabotage the rail project initiated by Jakonde? Yes! Did he rehabilitate the moribond rails when he was busy laying asphalt on top roads without potholes in the north(Kaduna) as the PTF chairman? NO |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Nobody: 7:45am On Jan 07, 2014 |
atlwireles:They are ignoramuses. Pls dont give up in trying to educate them. |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Pataki: 8:05am On Jan 07, 2014 |
SeaGold:And yet when your President wants to buy a jet, he goes for the more latest and relevant jet.Or why do your Ministers steal to buy themselves the layest bulletproof cars, while Nigerians continue to suffer in these charcoal locomotives? While dunderheads like you continue to spew 'Rome was not built in a day'. Who truly is allergic to progress and intellectual reasoning here? |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Pataki: 8:09am On Jan 07, 2014 |
Ayekotoo:Has this question been answered |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by ba7man(m): 8:11am On Jan 07, 2014 |
Sincere 9gerian:Jakande had plans to initiate a metro line in Lagos. The questions i have no answers to are; (1) Was it supposed to be elevated since Lagos was far less populated back then. Its being elevated will certainly mark up the project cost substantially. (2) Was it supposed to follow the current route on plan? Or was is intended to be on a lesser scale. (3) I'm sure building demolitions, re-settlement and compensations of displaced people were not part of the initial plan so that makes it far harder to execute. (4) Also, was Jakande's plan supposed to include 10 lane express roads? I doubt that. Then, we should stop celebrating the half baked Railway System. If G.E.J sees how you guys praise him for those trains Hussein Bolt can outrun at their full speed, he might start believing in his own hype and stop the Railway upgrade as it is. |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by Nobody: 9:07am On Jan 07, 2014 |
ba7man: Jakande had plans to initiate a metro line in Lagos.Nobody is "celebrating" anything. We'r just acknowledging what has been done. The railway sector has been moved several steps FORWARD under this govt. Fact! The narrow guage has been fixed and currently moves millions of passengers and tons of goods annually. Fact! If the narrow had not been fixed, those millions of people and goods would have had to be moved by road. Fact! Some of the people may have been killed or maimed in road accidents (see the Reuters report). Fact! Yes, there are complaints poor services and nobody is happy about that. It is the responsibility of those in charge to fix it and they'r trying to do that (it was even stated in that Vanguard report). On the issue of Lagos metro rail line, for a project that has been on the drawing board since 1983 and which would you have been completed in 1986 if not for the military coup, what Tinubu ought to have done in 1999 was to dust up the design, make necessary adjustments and commence work. This should not take a focused govt more than 2 years to achieve. But Tinubu ruled for 8 years with nothing on ground to show. |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by DaLover(m): 10:37am On Jan 07, 2014 |
Sincere 9gerian: Men you are giving this guys a good trashing, I have discovered that facts and figures are the key to answering these APC guys... Issue is since their only focus is how to grab power and control Nigeria's oil wealth, any achievements by GEJ will always be rubbished because it clashes with their desires... Good job, please keep it up! |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by TechWalker007: 10:49am On Jan 07, 2014 |
Obiagelli: This project has been defeated over and over again, only a vision less leader would embark on such. Over 18 billion of wasting away. Recent article in the dailies have proven some of us right. Fantastic for moving cargo, No No for passengers. I fear same fate awaits the phcn. This is the exact stance of an APC. They do not want progress as long as it's GEJ. |
Re: Will This Railway Carry Us Home? by awodman: 10:57am On Jan 07, 2014 |
Ayekotoo:A light rail is far from been one of the immediate needs of Akwa Ibom...Meanwhile Lagos as it now desperately needs an efficient train system |
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