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Lasinoh:

A CURVE zig-zag is the BEST WAY TO CLIMB/DRIVE A HILL.
Especially in bad weather.
Unlike this!

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Twice the journey. . .double the climb. . .same spot!
WwwwwwwwTF?

There's no way that that road could have been built on a straight line. The inclination is too steep. Of it were to be straight, the car would be at almost a 90 degree angle and would fall off. However, since it's curved, the car never inclines more than a certain amount of degrees and therefore can climb safely.

Nigerian are so pitiful.
So I can have vision of how poor are Nigerians.

tells me nothing

odumchi:

There's no way that that road could have been built on a straight line. The inclination is too steep. Of it were to be straight, the car would be at almost a 90 degree angle and would fall off. However, since it's curved, the car never inclines more than a certain amount of degrees and therefore can climb safely.

*more awon 'alaye-swagger' h-enemies trying to convince moi*?

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No be una mates build 'The Great Walls Of China'. . of ancient times. . . WITH ORDI-NAH-REE HAND?
Please, stop disgracing yourselves! You are not the only one with '90 degreee angle cliffs!
All about engineering. . .!

If you say so.
I beg to differ. Stop trying to convince me that that is the best CALABAR peeps could come up with? A RIP OFF!
IT IS NOT THAT STEEP FOR ALL THAT JAZZ OF A RIGMAROLE!
Call me stubborn. OR DUMBER AND DUMBEST. . . . . . . YA BUSINESS, NOT MINE!!!
I don't expect anything better. . . the topic of the thread.
Nigerian roads say a lot about Nigerians. . . Point made.
Enough of ya Calabar Catastrophe. . . !


Nor be ya mates dey drive around "The Grand Canyon" for Arizona IN THE SNOW?
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Please, back to topic.
Enough of the comedy of 'errors'!

What a reetarded road.

This is what I am saying when I say Nigerian roads are sub-standard.

A cretin designed and constructed this road for people to u-turn in the middle of an expressway by slowing down on the fast lane to turn to the fast lane of the reverse road?

Worse still, just after a bend without any warning signs?

Fck Lawd!

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Road wey nor get drainage system!

Gosh NL is sooooooooooo boring these days.
So-so Yoruba vs Igbo topics.
Or man lover, woman killer topics. . . ShiiiiYOOOOR!!!

Next pissssshure please!

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I weep for Afrikkkkkkka!!!

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Sani Pass. . . Lesotho-South Africa!

Bad Roads are more than good roads

@lasinoh

There is a yoruba saying that goes: "omo ale lo n fi owo osi juwe ile baba e". Translation: Only a bastard describes his fathers house with his left hand.

Yes we have bad roads (lots of them) but we also have fantastic roads that can compete with any road the world over. The fact that we are far from where will should be doesn't mean we must condemn everything, praise what is good and criticize what is bad instead of throwing the bath water away with the child.

About the mountain road in obudu:

When designing or building a mountain road there are so many factors to consider such as mudslides, angle of steepness, soil (texture, structure and fauna) et al hence the need to pick the lowest possible to ascend without damaging the mountain structure too much to avoid engineering catastrophes.
BTW: The road was constructed by the same Caucasians you seem to worship.

NB: the picture posted by the @op is a trunk C road wc means its the responsibility of the LGA in dat area, who do next to nothing IMHO wc makes me doubt the point of their existence in the first place

@Lasino:

If u're a civil engineer, u'l be a quack. A straight road on a hill with steep slope  , u must b kidin me.

The reason for the rigmarole or meanders in a layman's term is to reduce the effect of gravity.  

manny4life:


I do agree with your point; why would they build such a road? I'm no structural engineer but having watched Extreme Engineering on National Geographic, they used big supporting steel columns and built the roads on it. Like seriously, did they have a architectural design competition for this project? They need to watch Extreme Engineering more to see designs and ideas.

gidiMonsta:

Yes we have bad roads (lots of them) but we also have fantastic roads that can compete with any road the world over. The fact that we are far from where will should be doesn't mean we must condemn everything, praise what is good and criticize what is bad instead of throwing the bath water away with the child.

Like which ones?

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Here! This is what 'rigmarole' constructions are used for. . . not to rip of Calabar peepzs!

gidiMonsta:

@lasinoh

There is a yoruba saying that goes: "omo ale lo n fi owo osi juwe ile baba e". Translation: Only a bastard describes his fathers house with his left hand.

Yes we have bad roads (lots of them) but we also have fantastic roads that can compete with any road the world over. The fact that we are far from where will should be doesn't mean we must condemn everything, praise what is good and criticize what is bad instead of throwing the bath water away with the child.

About the mountain road in obudu:

When designing or building a mountain road there are so many factors to consider such as mudslides, angle of steepness, soil (texture, structure and fauna) et al hence the need to pick the lowest possible to ascend without damaging the mountain structure too much to avoid engineering catastrophes.
BTW: The road was constructed by the same Caucasians you seem to worship.

NB: the picture posted by the @op is a trunk C road wc means its the responsibility of the LGA in dat area, who do next to nothing IMHO wc makes me doubt the point of their existence in the first place

Please move with the jet age. . .not the cave man era!

degzy:

@Lasino:

If u're a civil engineer, u'l be a quack. A straight road on a hill with steep slope  , u must b kidin me.

The reason for the rigmarole or meanders in a layman's term is to reduce the effect of gravity. 

I prefer the San Francisco engineers please. Not Calabar ones.
Thank you!

I can't even recognise my thread anymore . Well, if you enjoyed this one, I have another one coming-up later today

Lasinoh:

Please move with the jet age. . .not the cave man era!

I prefer the San Francisco engineers please. Not Calabar ones.
Thank you!

Take a correction when you have been educated and stop playing "I no go carry last".

Sagamite:

Take a correction when you have been educated and stop playing "I no go carry last".

Carry last?
Never sweerie.
Not amongst olodo Nigerians like you. . .that do not realize when you are being phocked in the arzzzze because you enjoy it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_Street,_Dunedin

For YOUR education. . .your "Calabaric" road or apparition is NOT the world's steepest street huh?

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Guess what? No rigmarole!
PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIVE ON IT!
Not in an UNDER DEVELOPED evil forest!
Level the gadddem place, build some houses. . .then construct BETTER ROADS WITHOUT YOUR DOUBLE JEOPARDY ARRANGEMENT LIKE YOU HAVE IN THE CIVILIZED WORLD!
Thank you!

Lasinoh:

Carry last?
Never sweerie.
Not amongst olodo Nigerians like you. . .that do not realize when you are being phocked in the arzzzze because you enjoy it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_Street,_Dunedin

For YOUR education. . .your "Calabaric" road or apparition is NOT the world's steepest street huh?

Guess what? No rigmarole!
PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIVE ON IT!
Not in an evil forest!

You are a cretin!

You are daft to be comparing a residential street to a [quasi] motorway?

Mooron!

Sagamite:

You are a cretin!

You are daft to be comparing a residential street to a [quasi] motorway?

Mooron!

Olodo!
Sukkit up!
Your Nigerian 'engineers' need more training. Tell 'em to stay in school and stop smoking Indian-Hemp for breakfast every morning!
Thank God you know it is a 'quasi' motorway. . .how long will the white man keep ripping your off?

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quasi
qua·si adj \ˈkwā-ˌzī, -ˌsī; ˈkwä-zē, -sē\
Definition of QUASI
1: having some resemblance usually by possession of certain attributes

Move!

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This is a motor way. . .with correct elevation. . . not your 'Calabar' apology!
Thank you.
Back to topic please. . . .!!!

Lasinoh:

Olodo!
Sukkit up!
Your Nigerian 'engineers' need more training. Tell 'em to stay in school and stop smoking Indian-Hemp for breakfast every morning!
Thank God you know it is a 'quasi' motorway. . .how long will the white man keep ripping your off?
Move!

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This is a motor way. . .with correct elevation. . . not your 'Calabar' apology!
Thank you.
Back to topic please. . . .!!!

You are a cretin!

So your example of motorway with "correct elevation" was with a road that was curly?

Why didn't they build it and "elevate" it vertically up then, mooron?

Did you go to school?

I mean a proper one that produces proper graduates?

Cretin saying they should build a motorway straight up a hilly place. Fooooooooooooooool!

Sagamite:

You are a cretin!

So your example of motorway with "correct elevation" was with a road that was curly?

Why didn't they build it and "elevate" it vertically up then, mooron?

Did you go to school?

I mean a proper one that produces proper graduates?

Cretin saying they should build a motorway straight up a hilly place. Fooooooooooooooool!

No, I did not go to school. No apologies.
Back to topic. . . Thank you!
I would rather eat PIG feces than agree with you of all NL m0r0ns!
God forbid! I would rather remain a LIFE-TIME-CERTIFIED-DUNCE. . . .THAN TAKE ANY FORM OF EDUCATION FROM A GOAT LIKE YOUR!
Mu he he he he he

@Lasinoh
Are you the same as world famous Blazay?
Your old handle (chintua) was very easy to follow

@sagamite

Like which ones?

err, Central Abuja (maitama, wuse II, et al), lekki-ajah expressway, itam-uyo road, and a few other roads.

@lasinoh

either u r grossly uneducated or ur sense of identity is totally lost so much so that u tend to criticize anything from ur fatherland, cos I can't imagine a sane person who thinks that u can build a straight road up a plateau that is 5200ft above sea level. SMH for ur predicament, I no envy u at all, onyeara oshi

Ahem! Ibadan. . . .

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Hmmmm!

Awon: "guguru pe re re. . . epa pe re re. . . guguru pe re re. . . epa pe re re"!

jay bee:

@Lasinoh
Are you the same as world famous Blazay?
Your old handle (chintua) was very easy to follow

gidiMonsta:

@sagamite
err, Central Abuja (maitama, wuse II, et al), lekki-ajah expressway, itam-uyo road, and a few other roads.

@lasinoh

either u r grossly uneducated or your sense of identity is totally lost so much so that u tend to criticize anything from your fatherland, cos I can't imagine a sane person who thinks that u can build a straight road up a plateau that is 5200ft above sea level. SMH for your predicament, I no envy u at all, onyeara oshi

It must be 'reaaaally cold' in London this month!
Sorry, I can't help you sirs!
Head to the 'Romance and Man-Lover' section of NL please.
Thank you!

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Is this the Calabar?

Lasinoh:

No, I did not go to school. No apologies.
Back to topic. . . Thank you!
I would rather eat PIG feces than agree with you of all NL m0r0ns!
God forbid! I would rather remain a LIFE-TIME-CERTIFIED-DUNCE. . . .THAN TAKE ANY FORM OF EDUCATION FROM A GOAT LIKE YOUR!
Mu he he he he he

You are a cretin!

You are so daft, in your attempt to prove someone wrong, you ended up proving them right.

You obviously did not go to school.

Most of those beautiful roads are in Abuja.