Revolva:
so now the average danfo bus driver now will be holding ATm now to make payment at lekki toll gates now abi...dis is useless innovation

Revolva:
so now the average danfo bus driver now will be holding ATm now to make payment at lekki toll gates now abi...dis is useless innovation

naptu2:


Danfo buses have been banned from that bridge since it was built. The yellow and black danfo buses are not allowed into Lekki Phase 1. The estate has its own white shuttle buses and even the Lekki shuttle buses are not allowed on the bridge. That's why some people prefer the bridge, because they don't have to jostle with crazy danfo drivers.


Note that, according to the article, this cashless policy will only be applied on the Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge. It won't be applied on the expressway.

naptu2:


Right from inception (c2011 for the expressway and 2013 for the bridge) users have had the options of using either the swiftpass system or the etag system.


A sticker is put on your windshield for the etag system and the camera reads the sticker and debits your account as you pass. This means that you don't need to stop at all.

The swiftpass system requires the use of a card that you swipe against a sensor at the toll both.

These two systems, along with the exact change lane and the regular lane (where you pay in cash and are given your change), have existed since the beginning. The only difference now is that they are scrapping the cash lanes on the bridge.

naptu2:
This is the way that you pay without cash.

1) E-tag: There's a sticker on your windscreen, like the sticker in the first picture below. There's also a camera at the toll booth. The camera reads your sticker which identifies who you are. The system immediately communicates with your LCC account and debits it and lifts the boom to allow you through the toll gate. This means that you can pass through the toll gate without stopping.


2) Swiftpass: You have one of the cards in the second picture below. You swipe the card against a sensor at the toll booth and your account is debited and it lets you through the toll gate.

There are two cards in the second picture. That's because there were two tolling companies when Governor Fashola set up the system. There was the Lekki Concession Company, which was in charge of collecting toll at the Admiralty Circle Plaza (on the Lekki-Ikoyi Expressway) and the Lekki Tolling Company, which was in charge of collecting toll on the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge. Governor Ambode cancelled the Lekki Tolling Company's concession and handed it over to the Lekki Concession Company.


There are two benefits of this cashless policy on the bridge and one potentially very serious problem.

The first and obvious benefit is that traffic will flow faster because people won't stop at the toll plaza to collect change.

The second benefit has to do with LCC's practice of closing some toll gates during rush hour. One of the biggest criticisms of LCC is that they leave some gates closed (both on the expressway and on the bridge) even during rush hour. I've always wondered why they do this. Do they gain any benefit from the traffic jams? The it finally hit me. The fewer toll gates that are open = the less wages they'll have to pay. The fact that the system is now automated might mean that they can afford to leave the gates open all the time.


There's a potentially really big problem that they might have to address. I hate using the Admiralty Circle Plaza if the e-tag gate is not working. Yet, oftentimes the e-tag gate is not working during rush hour because their systems are down. Are they sure that they will be able to keep their systems running continuously now? They should realise that some people are going to approach the toll plaza without any cash, since you can no longer pay with cash. What happens to those people if the system breaks down?

EponOjuku:
Naira notes are still legal tender. They can't reject cash payments in favour of electronic payments. Even if it is only 1 lane for cash payments, they must still provide it.

That's how some banks were rejecting the NIMC slip before they warned them.

A rookie lawyer seeking fame would make mincemeat of these idiots who do things without thinking. If I can even get 400 coins of 50kobo each, I would use coins to pay them.

Let them come and tell me Lekki Toll Gate has become foreign border where Naira notes and kobo coins aren't accepted.

EponOjuku:
Naira notes are still legal tender. They can't reject cash payments in favour of electronic payments. Even if it is only 1 lane for cash payments, they must still provide it.

That's how some banks were rejecting the NIMC slip before they warned them.

A rookie lawyer seeking fame would make mincemeat of these idiots who do things without thinking. If I can even get 400 coins of 50kobo each, I would use coins to pay them.

Let them come and tell me Lekki Toll Gate has become foreign border where Naira notes and kobo coins aren't accepted.

OJLion:
To me this is just making life harder

Modern my ass

Even toll gates in the US is accepting cash
Just tell us this is a coded way to phase out danfo bus from that road

YorubaPrince:
Wey Spafu sef?

naptu2:
It seems I'll end up doing what I did 8 or 9 years ago.


There was a huge debate on Nairaland back then. I weighed in on the debate because a lot of people were writing out of ignorance. This was basically happening in my backyard and I knew exactly what was happening.


I intended to go out, but I deliberately delayed my outing. I hoped that I would be able to take pictures of the drama, but all I saw when I was leaving home were policemen. Lots of policemen.

I left and went to do what I had to do. I came back around an hour later and everywhere was peaceful.

The drama had occurred while I was gone. There had been a war on the streets and I had missed it.

Kobicove:
What happens to people who only pass through the toll plaza once in a while

mrgoodd:
I notice something with nigeria leaders, They start there nonsense with begging, After the masses allow them implement there useless project due to begging , They turn around and start beating people to allow them improve there implementations, Just imagine, This toll gate price has doubled the amount people paid when it was first built.

Daboomb:
One of the problems of Nigeria, are the supposedly "educated elite" who are too quick to jump around trying to justify this perfidy!
Most of them are as corrupt as the decisions of their boss they tend to justify and they are mostly looking for an opportunity to be called to "come and chop".
I repeat, in America and in Europe, in advanced countries in Asia, people still use cash at the Toll Gates.
If you dont have tags, you simply chose either the no-Change lane or the "pay with Change" lane.
But these fools in Nigeria will just wake up one day and tell you if you dont hava a tag, you cant pass.
Everything they do, must be by force and threat

What these fools forget is that there might be "people on transit", say a foreigner just passing through the Toll, say once or a "to-fro" journey and is not in a position to acquire a tag (If you are travelling say from the UK to France, by road, you will pass through a number of Tolls in different countries. Such people use the cash lanes of a toll plaza.
Imagine if each country says you cant pass, unless you have an E-tag! Imagine the chaos this will cause!!.
One day sha, their Goat will fo to the market and will not return home.

I see one of their hnagers-on here trying very hard to justify the stupidity of this effort by his Bourdillon master's company.
Too many daft and unrependant educated m0r0ns in Nigeria

Unghost:


illiterates are not hard to find in nairaland

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