₦airaland Forum

marvel10:
How can't you compare the UK to Nigeria? Our currencies once traded 1GBP to 1NGN. If we have mismanaged things to such an extent today, whose fault is it? Of course, the OP!
7 years ago, some Brazillians would have argued the same thing. But, look! Today their economy has overtaken that of the UK. They are not a bunch of tax evading, verbally abusive, unruly, intellectually and physically lazy magpies. If we exported abuse and binding, we would be the leading nation.

naptu2:
You can't really see the bridge from those pics posted earlier. You have to go to the crescent opposite. I took these pics about a week and a half ago. Please forgive me for any mistakes, still getting used to posting pics here.

Kobojunkie:
Lekki Coastal Road IS the Lekki Expressway, according also to Tunde Fashola himself.

How that Expressway is now in the hands of Federal, Lord knows. The Shoreline road however which LASG proposed back in 2009 to quell the worries of the people back then is still on paper and not out yet.

Akainzo:
The coastal road is a federal government project and not a Lagos State initiative. This is why I doubt that the coastal road would have been awarded to LCC as part of its agreement with Lagos, when all the landing points in other states have not yet been settled. I know cos a friend of mine is part of the project consultants.

Akainzo:
The coastal road is a Federal project that is supposed to run from Lagos all the way to Cross Rivers state. That is still currently in the planning stage. However, once completed, people can use it as an alternative to the Lekki-Epe expressway as it would also land in Epe and somewhere behind Ikorodu.

For now the existing alternative is in Oniru.

Kobojunkie:
That is what has been bothering me about the development. The Government had enough time to put together a better route . . . it could have even worked on using a route it could maybe add another route to, but instead it chose a one-road backyard route, not even fit for expressway kind of traffic. Why?

Another question is why did the work done on the road cost about $10 million US dollars/mile considering the N50 billion(~$300 million dollars) cost as suggested by some of here?

Akainzo:
Many people that pass that toll plaza are not going to the airport, the toll gate is for the Airport - Ikeja bye-pass and not on the airport road itself. You can go from Oshodi to either Airports without paying toll. In fact you can go to all the three terminals in Lagos without paying any toll at the airport toll gate!

Most take it as an alternative and are willing to pay, rather than go through the Apapa Oshodi expressway. Those people staying in Ikeja and working along Apapa-Oshodi do pay that toll daily. But they are grateful as they avoid the Ikeja-Oshodi-Apapa route.

Akainzo:
To everyone parroting that the Lekki road leads to a purely residential are, let it be known that the official name for that road for more than a decade is Lekki-Epe Expressway. It is a highway, a trunk B road that has now been reclassified as Trunk A. That road was never residential as it was built and is being maintained as a highway.

BTW, while the tolling was in place on the Sagamu-Benin expressway, why were there no protests on behalf of the poor villagers living along its path, or was that expressway built and all villages bordering it evacuated? Note that while it was in place, the poor villagers in Okada town had to pay toll to go see their relatives in Benin. The poor villagers in Obigbo also paid toll to go work daily while commuting to Port-Harcourt in Rivers State, were there protest then?

From the way I see it, this protests are more political/sentimental than anything else. People are being riled based on the perceived beneficiary or owner of the company while they do rough calculations of what the toll plazas would generate yearly. They however fail to calculate the costs in salaries, road repairs and infrastructure maintenance over the life of the concession.

Tolling is not new in Nigeria, and highways can be tolled anywhere else in the world. Nigeria isn’t an exception.

dayokanu:
But not all road in lagos state have been renovated like the Lekki -Epe road.

But they singled out Lekki road for renovation and not the road in Alagbado or Ayobo

baksonlee:
They have only tolling one road and you are on here crying, heaven knows what would happen if they toll more roads

dayokanu:
All the advanced countries as well as developing countries pay tax and also toll roads

Then let Lasg toll all the roads they constructed in the past two years and not single out lekki.

endmoll:
For those of you who are crying about paying at the toll gate, if you can afford to buy a car worth millions of naira then you should shut your mouth and pay for the freaking toll.
Many of you always refer and talk of western countries forgeting that there  citizens are the ones that helped make there country what it is today. So any body coming here to

make noise about the toll should suck it up and move to Ajegunle were he or she will not pay toll PERIOD.
Every one of us wants to go to heaven but we are all afraid to die,for us to attain to a developed nation we must learn how to first pay taxes and pay for the services that we enjoy be it electricity,water,road,healthcare and then being accountable.
I hate the when people come out here to make noise and think every thing should be free because they are citizens of the earth thereby it is there birth right to have a those amnesties without paying for it.
Most of us who come out here to yell at the government most times can't even manage there own families but they have a perfect vision of how a country should be run. I am not saying that every thing is going well in Nigeria but we need to look inwards at our self,the change we need has to start from me and you before the government can change.
Who are the government? This the question we need to ask ourselves,until we get to the answer that is when we can start to have visible change in our comunity

Orikinla:
The Lagos State Government explained the need and provided alternative routes for those who do not want to use the Lekki Toll Gate.

Those protesting are just noisemakers.

They spend more than that making unnecessary calls and sending useless text messages on their mobile phones.
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In that case bode Thomas road has been repaired I think they should toll it and the  orile - Badagry road too.

2AMLasgidi:
Why it failed,

1. The Protest and agitation against the toll on the Lekki-Epe Axis  was ill adviced especially by those who has issues with LAGOS State government on political grounds. The Likes of Bode George jumping forward to lead a campaign against Tolling, already this pushed people with genuine issues against the project off the protest. When a masses oriented agitation is reduced to a political weapon it will fall woefully.

2. Most of those who claim to be leading the Protest are insincere, the like of Ebun Olu-Adegboruwa who has been evading tax in Lagos for years and already have a paper served him in that respect.

3. They did not make realistic demand to LCC/LASG. I am of the opinion that the politicians among them blurred their mindset. Ordinarily a responsible demand should included the following
      a. Reduction of the toll price by 50%
      b. reduce toll point to 2 points instead of 3 as currently done.
      c. make the alternative road more accessible by improving the facilities like street light, rid the road of abandonned vehicles and security

If we benchmark it against developed and developing countries in Malaysia you have 6 Toll Gates in a road of about 100km. They pay tax too. Good thing doesn't come cheap. In the UK, you have to pay for a parking slot even in your workplace.

Yoruba have a proverb "Ile ti a ba fi ito mo, eeri lo ma nwo danu" (A house built with saliva will be distroyed by dew)

If LCC/LASG can guarantee regular maintenance of the infrastructure and the road is well looked after, you gotta pay, guys. That's the way it is.

Ola one:
In the UK, you have to pay for a parking slot in your workplace.

If they can guarantee judicious use of the money, and the road is well looked after, you gotta pay, guys. That's the way it is. You have to embrace development.
What joy do you derive from driving a 25 million naira car on a road that is riddled with pot holes?


What joy does a Naija rich man derive in flying first class only to get to Lagos and drive the whole stretch of road called the 3rd Mainland Bridge without street lights? Which is more dangerous? Class of flight or a dangerous road? It seems crazy and stooopid.

I am sorry.