eros:

I am a man who hates to dwell on problems. I did rather work on the solution and Nigeria needs alot of solution minded people and not people who always delight in discussing the problems and then cursing and swearing at each other at the end of the day without any solutions proffered.

Has anybody proffered any other better solution? I don't think so.

So why not burn the damn tolls, that seems like a reasonable thing to do and this problem will be solved once and for all

Kobojunkie:

Isn't the obvious solution, which really could have solved this since 2009, be that the Government hold off on tolling the expressway, until it is sure it has adequately created alternative routes in the area. I mean that has been the suggestion from the beginning . . . a common sense solution if you ask me. But Somehow the administration continues to resist this, it seems.

Kobojunkie:

People here are requesting what makes sense, but some thugs feel it makes sense to shoot governors from 30 years ago,

and the people, because they demand their tax money [/b]entitle them to alternative routes before the one route that has been available for them for 30 years be tolled.
Now that I think of your suggestion, would probably happen if the Government did such here. 

karl max:

So mr coogar so fashola adding one lane of road from lekki phase 1 to chevron is enough to mount 3 toll gate on a road without viable alternative road. a road jakande's government built from V.I to epe for 30 years is that your idea of development they would have built a new road linking in and out of like and mount there toll no one would have complained if dat had been done but the theives want to rip where they didnt sow very funny

eros:

They continue to resist that solution because of what they stand to gain. These people make their money by the numbers. Can you imagine how many motorists ply that road on a daily basis? Then calculate how much will be made per day, then per month and per year. It definitely will run into billions of naira.

So tell me, why would the State Government create alternative routes when they know Lagosians will rather ply such routes than pay 360 Naira everyday on the damn road.

coogar:

you have made several senseless remarks heavy enough to sink the titanic. the lekki tolling is a very correct decision.
the problem with you and most nigerians is the fact that everyone wants to live in lagos by force even when their income does not fit in. if you want to use the lekki road, pay for the lekki road and the state government shall maintain that road until they can think about building an alternative route.

that to me is logical. for the ones whose finances would collapse because of the tolling. they should move out of lekki to go n stay in the suburbs.
with that, the pressure on the road would lessen and the government would have much less to do maintaining the road.
everyone cannot stay in lekki.


what useless tax do lagosians pay? abeg. . . . .don't even go down that route. nigerians don't pay any tax at all with their devious schemes and tricks they use to defraud their own government. i make 100,000 naira a month and my tax is 20,000. this looks pretty on the eye and the general idea is that the state government keeps the 20,000 but the reality in nigeria is i have created 5 ghost workers to recoup that tax in four folds back from the state government.

in other words, it's now the government paying me tax, not the other way round.
if i were fashola, i would put a toll-plaza on every road in the lagos island environ.
lagosians want to enjoy good roads like the other developed cities in the world - then let them pay through their noses for such luxury!

it is enough. . . . . .he should mount 5.
3 won't produce the cash to construct another alternative route in time.
do nigerians pay "road tax"? are there congested charge area on some lagos roads?

fashola is too nice for lagosians.

Oh boy!!! You have completely lost it. So a mere road is a luxury   It is my right and every Nigerians right to ply on good roads without paying toll for it.

Men, some Nigerians really need psychological help. I can't even argue with you because you just fall my hand by that statement.

eros:

Oh boy!!! You have completely lost it. So a mere road is a luxury   It is my right and every Nigerians right to ply on good roads without paying toll for it.

Men, some Nigerians really need psychological help. I can't even argue with you because you just fall my hand by that statement.

Eko Ile:

@ coger,

You are lecturing these losers for real.

Im enjoying your posts.

coogar:

it peeves me when some nigerians cannot think out of the box and you would find out the people complaining the most are not even yorubas.
the non-yorubas migrate to lagos for better lives and they demand what they dare not say in their states of origin.

people should realize lagos is over-populated. how that state works baffles me. the amenities are seriously overloaded because people won't stop trooping in. ask these people to pay to enjoy better services and they complain - because nobody has asked them to pay in enugu, ebonyi and bayelsa.

if those places are that better, why not relocate back and leave lagos alone?

eros:

No need to get worked up, trust me you will wake up one beautiful morning and find your beloved toll gate burnt to ashes. Then all these ranting and shouting will be over.

Problem solved.

nku5:

@ coogar - I'm browsing with my phone so there's a limit to what I can post. You say you live in that axis and I can assume you're very well off and don't mind paying average of 250 naira to go in and out of your house (if you don't live too far from lekki phase 1). You must understand that its not about people moving to lagos, there are lots of indigenes of eti-osa area who are against it for two reasons , one they can't afford it and secondly the principle is on its head. How can an elected official sign an agreement of that magnitude in secret.

nku5:

@ coogar - subsidy ke? That's not happening and you know it.chei na God save u I am using my phone. Wetin concern lcc and resident? The problem is that nigerians have been so deprived that some things excite them when they should not. A governor who cannot allow a road to be built without "leasing" it for 30yrs needs to be asked serious questions.

coogar:

why can't it happen?
lekki residents belong to one housing estate or the other. have the cars registered with lcc. get a special tag to be displayed on the wind-shield of the registered vehicles so if others are paying say 100 naira, residents would be paying 50 naira or thereabout.

phantom:

So, roads have now become luxury and should be paid for Abi? Na wa o! I know we have been left holding the short end of the stick by our leaders but it does not mean we should accept what we rightly deserve as a people as if its a favour or handout handed to us.i dont live in lekki or lagos for that matter but the manner in which the residents of lekki are complaining show they are seriously being shortchanged, one issue that bothers me is why there arent any flyovers on a six lane highway, it makes no sense especially when it appears to be the solution to the traffick bottlenecks on that road.the whole thing seriously appears fraudulent.

Eko Ile:

It's already been established that nigerias are only interested in awoof.
We hear the same crying and yelling about paying too taxes, where they expect the state.too get money for roads and other services from I don't know.

The way I see it, the Lgs should be taxing their own locals too raise money for local schools, roads, clinics and other services while the state tax everybody for state roads, universities , bridges and other state projects.

We should also have funds created with taxes of maybe 1 or 2 kobo on everything we buy, maybe even on petrol like they do in the US and other countries. They build and support their highways with taxes from petrol.

Bottom line, somebodys got to pay someway somehow. Nigerians just need to get real and forget about awoof, it's time to start paying for what we crave and use.

hercules07:

LCC already asked those who live in the areas to get special tags, they will not have to pay more than once even if they use the road ten times in a day, try doing that with the FG on that Airport road that is tolled, you will pay every time you pass through that and I do not see anybody complaining. People need to pay the toll so that the roads can be done better, a guy called in saying how the LCC guys towed his vehicle for free on that road, do you guys know how much towing vehicles charge in Lagos?

POTUT:

It is VERY UNFORTUNATE that some Nigerians will sit in the US and anywhere else they have been lucky to get asylum to make comments from a pathetic perspective.

Here are the FACTS for you diasporans to digest before running off your mouths,
[list]
[li]That two-lane 80 plus kilometre stretch from Mobil Building to Epe existed as at the time of Jakande in the early 80s.[/li]
[li]As the decades came, population grew and that whole stretch grew into a dense residential area with estates sprouting on both sides of the stretch and a few businesses (relative to residences).[/li]
[list]
[li]Congestion on the two-lane road became the order of the day everyday. Danfo drivers and huge construction trucks attending to the Lekki Free Trade Zone made it worse.[/li]
[li]Tinubu borrowed money and awarded the contract to expand the road to LCC (a company many still believe he has stakes in.)[/li]
[li]LCC added only one more lane to the existing road, repaved the existing two lanes and built horrendous death traps in the name of roundabouts.[/li]
[li]Over a 20 kilometer stretch of the road, which is still unfinished as we speak, LCC has mounted THREE toll plazas. Only one of the plazas is functional at the moment, the other two should be functional within 2012.[/li]
[li]One directional trip for a sedan car will cost N120 (one hundred and twenty naira). Twenty bucks more than the traditional National toll of N100. When the three tolls start working, a family sedan will pay N360 to go to work, and same to return, for those who start from the end of this 20 km stretch[/li]
[li]The quality of this road is questionable, given the many uneven surfaces and acute approach angles to the roundabouts (I still wonder where Tinubu and Fashola's sense of planning where applied in approving roundabouts instead of overpasses. The 3rd roundabout at Mobil Station has already relapsed to congestion because of its strategic location[/li]
[/list]

Now, where in the world is a 20 kilometer stretch tolled 3 times?
Why didn't Lagos Govt. ask LCC to toll only the new lane and leave those who don't want to pay to suffer the congestion?
Why are there no alternative roads all the way?

Please consider these sincerely. I support the notion of tolling in a private-public partnership if this will only involve one toll plaza, but not 3 over a 20 kilometer stretch.

Who is really behind this evil?

POTUT:

It is VERY UNFORTUNATE that some Nigerians will sit in the US and anywhere else they have been lucky to get asylum to make comments from a pathetic perspective.

Here are the FACTS for you diasporans to digest before running off your mouths,
[list]
[li]That two-lane 80 plus kilometre stretch from Mobil Building to Epe existed as at the time of Jakande in the early 80s.[/li]
[li]As the decades came, population grew and that whole stretch grew into a dense residential area with estates sprouting on both sides of the stretch and a few businesses (relative to residences).[/li]
[list]
[li]Congestion on the two-lane road became the order of the day everyday. Danfo drivers and huge construction trucks attending to the Lekki Free Trade Zone made it worse.[/li]
[li]Tinubu borrowed money and awarded the contract to expand the road to LCC (a company many still believe he has stakes in.)[/li]
[li]LCC added only one more lane to the existing road, repaved the existing two lanes and built horrendous death traps in the name of roundabouts.[/li]
[li]Over a 20 kilometer stretch of the road, which is still unfinished as we speak, LCC has mounted THREE toll plazas. Only one of the plazas is functional at the moment, the other two should be functional within 2012.[/li]
[li]One directional trip for a sedan car will cost N120 (one hundred and twenty naira). Twenty bucks more than the traditional National toll of N100. When the three tolls start working, a family sedan will pay N360 to go to work, and same to return, for those who start from the end of this 20 km stretch[/li]
[li]The quality of this road is questionable, given the many uneven surfaces and acute approach angles to the roundabouts (I still wonder where Tinubu and Fashola's sense of planning where applied in approving roundabouts instead of overpasses. The 3rd roundabout at Mobil Station has already relapsed to congestion because of its strategic location[/li]
[/list]

Now, where in the world is a 20 kilometer stretch tolled 3 times?
Why didn't Lagos Govt. ask LCC to toll only the new lane and leave those who don't want to pay to suffer the congestion?
Why are there no alternative roads all the way?

Please consider these sincerely. I support the notion of tolling in a private-public partnership if this will only involve one toll plaza, but not 3 over a 20 kilometer stretch.

Who is really behind this evil?

Eko Ile:


lol @ this olodo,  Shey na free den build the road?

Btw, didn't I tell this clown to go worry about his village with his useless Isi ewu  big bele governors?.

POTUT:

It is VERY UNFORTUNATE that some Nigerians will sit in the US and anywhere else they have been lucky to get asylum to make comments from a pathetic perspective.Here are the FACTS for you diasporans to digest before running off your mouths,

[list]
[li]That two-lane 80 plus kilometre stretch from Mobil Building to Epe existed as at the time of Jakande in the early 80s.[/li]
[li]As the decades came, population grew and that whole stretch grew into a dense residential area with estates sprouting on both sides of the stretch and a few businesses (relative to residences).[/li]
[list]
[li]Congestion on the two-lane road became the order of the day everyday. Danfo drivers and huge construction trucks attending to the Lekki Free Trade Zone made it worse.[/li]
[li]Tinubu borrowed money and awarded the contract to expand the road to LCC (a company many still believe he has stakes in.)[/li]
[li]LCC added only one more lane to the existing road, repaved the existing two lanes and built horrendous death traps in the name of roundabouts.[/li]
[li]Over a 20 kilometer stretch of the road, which is still unfinished as we speak, LCC has mounted THREE toll plazas. Only one of the plazas is functional at the moment, the other two should be functional within 2012.[/li]
[li]One directional trip for a sedan car will cost N120 (one hundred and twenty naira). Twenty bucks more than the traditional National toll of N100. When the three tolls start working, a family sedan will pay N360 to go to work, and same to return, for those who start from the end of this 20 km stretch[/li]
[li]The quality of this road is questionable, given the many uneven surfaces and acute approach angles to the roundabouts (I still wonder where Tinubu and Fashola's sense of planning where applied in approving roundabouts instead of overpasses. The 3rd roundabout at Mobil Station has already relapsed to congestion because of its strategic location[/li]
[/list]

Now, where in the world is a 20 kilometer stretch tolled 3 times?
Why didn't Lagos Govt. ask LCC to toll only the new lane and leave those who don't want to pay to suffer the congestion?
Why are there no alternative roads all the way?

Please consider these sincerely. I support the notion of tolling in a private-public partnership if this will only involve one toll plaza, but not 3 over a 20 kilometer stretch.

Who is really behind this evil?

coogar:

the facts mean shyte to me as far as i am concerned. one of the reasons nigeria is so shyte is the irresponsibility of the citizens.
i am used to getting taxed and enjoying the benefits on the roads, electricity, hospitals and other basic amenities. i see no reason why the same methods cannot apply back home.

coogar:


all these points are barking without biting.
your state government has asked you to pay. pay up or shut up.
lagos motorists don't pay road-tax, do they? and you are complaining?

coogar:

toll the new lane? who would use a tolled lane when there's a free lane?
what a spastic idea!!!

they have to start somewhere. . . . . . .
in no time, 3 toll plazas would reduce to 2 and eventually, 2 would reduce to one.
it's for the greater good. endure the pain now so your children would enjoy the benefits later.