₦airaland Forum

Shma2020:
No. But in some sections, it's quite inevitable considering the vastness of the highway.
Pic one and two is the state of 80% of Nairobi expressway, the road passes in between the two existing highways.
Pic 3 and four is a flyover.

Shma2020:
No one was talking about these emboldened.

For the expressway, yes. We're not overhyping it, we're just stating the obvious fact.
Enlighten your self about flyover.
Noun
flyover (plural flyovers)

(British) A road or railway that passes over another, allowing routes to cross without interruption.
Synonyms: overpass
Antonyms: underpass, flyunder

kikuyu1:
NIGGA, WHAT!?

Forget that Global Firepower list compiled by unsupervised kids. List the following in both forces for a proper comparison
-pay
- working platforms, ie choppers, armour, aircraft
- battlefield success

Its not even close.

Shma2020:
Thanks

@vlain, this message has been directed to you indirectly

Vlain:
Trying to resolve shiit with Kenyans is a waste of time.just give them hot! Hot!!

Mkenya2019:
Your military is definitely not better equiped. Unless you mean in dead stock of unmaintainable equipment

Shma2020:
We have many flyovers, zombie. And expressway is not part of it. It seems your puny brain is still struggling to fathom basic things. You don't need school education to know what a flyover means. Illiteracy and dimwitness will obliterate your sanity for good.

Mkenya2019:
The most important aspect of public transport - is to move people in mass quickly. People stand even here in Europe in buses. People are interested in getting to work and home in the quickest possible time - so they can enjoy their time at home. The ferry takes less than 10 minutes - it reached the end of island.

Nobody wants to spend 4hours in the sweltering heat of Lagos stuck in the bridge inhaling fumes.

10 boats - use that for fishing.

Shma2020:
I've spared my 20mins just to search for SA roads but disappointingly, I didn't see any road that can match Nairobi expressway.

And yes, this road is 28km but the quality standards in it is quite mind-boggling. 18km of it will be eleveted and it will have 10 interchanges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUe6M_NLeWY

The only road that I saw of high quality in south Africa is that spaghetti road. But sadly that is an interchange which I wasn't talking about cos even Ghana has done a grand thing in that sector which no interchange in Sub-Sahara outside SA can rival!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDDrP7SHF80

Mkenya2019:
Kamikaze nonsense of the highest proportion. How does transporting 20-30 people in boats in city of 20m really help.
Just buy freaking ferries for crying out loud.
Mombasa has ferry services that move thousands daily

Lagos needs proper ferry services that will move people and cars btw the many island. NOT BOATS

A ferry that can carry 1,000 people at go, mayb 100 cars.

Mkenya2019:
Actually, you should borrow to build infrastructure - or do PPPs - allow the private sector if they find it profitable. You can use oil money to invest in Nigerians - their very bad education - their poverty - and most important their SECURITY. You need to spend at least 12B dollars in your security sector to reach Kenya level. You're spending 2.5B - at the whims of boko haram, cattler rustlers, muslims jihadist of various forms, urban gangs, kidnapping, oil pipeline vandalism (now you produce less oil than you did 20yrs ago), and now south east has started armed civil war in Biafra

Shma2020:
Not even south africa. I've checked.
Or if you have any link or pics you can just post.

rvp20182:
Yes 200k is low - a million - for a city of 4m plus would be ideal - for Lagos - you need something that move maybe 5m per day - if indeed it's 20m city.

Our commuter rail is stop gap measure - eventually we need to tear it done - and build a proper electrified metro line - radiating to all corners of nairobi...that can carry a million plus people

PROVERBZ:
honestly that was the biggest embarrassment ever only one state in Nigeria could host chan

NTSA:
Some years back African athletes got stranded at lagos airport .

rvp20182:
With new DMUs and hourly service - the projection is to hit 40,000 passengers per day.That would be like Gautrain - whose ridership keep dropping.

rvp20182:
Wet dreams. Lagos-Ibandan - mere 100kms - was started in 2012 - and has taken almost 10yrs - to complete. That is crazy. Nairobi to Mombasa a line of 500km - took 3yrs to be completed.

The same with the rest. You are building 10Km per year. That is why there is Julius Berger towns all over Nigeria. Your country is broke and cannot finance project in timely money.

theenchanter:
pls, be concerned about urs for once.

rvp20182:
It doesnt make any difference. Ethiopia one is carrying 200,000 per day.
1000 passengers can be carried by 10 buses - two trips per day - 50 passenger each a day
That is just wasted of money in many level - that train is burning lot of diesel for nothing.
Let write off the investment there -

Railway if it to carry passengers - should be playing around a million passenger per day - not 1,000.

rvp20182:
Pleasantly suprised. I see it carried 42,000 in a month - that is 1,000 passenger per day

rvp20182:
Pigsty is better?

rvp20182:
Future tense. Delusion. Nigeria is broke. It cannot finance any capital project. Even that Lagos-Ibandan will not go into operation - its taken forever for 120km.

rvp20182:
Kenya is corrupt but at least policy wonks are allowed to do their work - run projections, come up with designs, and all that - with fatcats coming to ask their 10 percent later. NIgeria is run like a cattle kraal.

Listen to this guy explain Kenya BRT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB_ISxC6miM

rvp20182:
So when do you expect your airport line to ever be populated. See the whole of Abuja is Potemkin village. Just because other cities have train from Airport to the city center - you started from it. And that is airport that is like 40kms from Abuja city center

Total waste of money.

As for Nigeria projects - none has been completed since 2016 when these thread started - and none likely to be completed - because you gov is BROKE. NO MONEY.

It will likely go the way 10B dollar rusted to the ground in the Ajeuokota steel mill.

NTSA:
Apparently it runs From some place called IDU to the Airport ,Earlier on, I thought it was a commuter rail running all around Abujas neighborhood untill I googled.

rvp20182:
Not only that. It the most ridicolous wastage of money. It cost nearly 1 billion dollars. It carries 400 passenger per day. The guys going to get into plane . It beyond the pale. Nigeria is just full of cattle....led by a school dropout without even primary education.

Compare that to Ethiopia Adis - carries more than 200,000 passengers daily

Meanwhile Lagos that badly need such a rail system - has world worst commute - people sleep in their car for a week - those that commute have ot leave by 3pm/4pm - and arrive home past 10!!!!!! -

Shma2020:
Are you not ashamed of yourself? With your huge population and resources and still screaming about 3 projects!

Anyway, stay tuned. I will be posting pictures of mega projects as we move.

Shma2020:
This is undoubtedly the longest and the best expressway in Sub-Sahara Africa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ8g2UmnDeQ

Mkenya2019:
Konza is a gov project. Once they complete horizontal infrastructure it will fly. Kenya people have money.

Mkenya2019:
Kshs 108 to a dollar. Simple maths.

Mkenya2019:
Very slow progress. Why cant Nigeria diaspora buy or build units.