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naptu2: LRT


Lagos-Badagry Expressway before the rail project.
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Artist impression of Lagos-Badagry Expressway after the rail project is completed.
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10 lanes + BRT and LRT.

Marina before the rail project
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Artist impression of Marina after the rail project is completed.
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Rail, BRT, regular bus and ferry services.

The Lagos Rail Transit (LRT) system will be similar to the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system in the sense that the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) will build and maintain the tracks, while the concessionaire will procure and maintain the trains.

Already, the concessionaire on the blue line has procured carriages from Canada (they were subway trains, but have been converted to surface trains). Lagos State Government will build a dedicated independent power plant to provide electricity to the system.

The Blue Line.

The Lagos-Badagry Expressway is part of the abandoned Trans-African Highway project. However, it is prone to massive traffic jams. This has stunted development along that corridor since people don't want to live and work in that area because of the traffic problems.

Therefore, the Lagos State Government is expanding the road. It will be a 10 lane expressway with BRT and LRT routes. Julius Berger is expanding the road (so far they've expanded the road between Orile and Mile 2 and expanded the Mile 2 Bridge), while Chinese Civil Engineering and Construction Company (CCECC) is laying the tracks. It's largely going to be an elevated rail system (CCECC has built part oof the bridge along the Orile axis and they are also building elevated stations from Orile too Mile 2).

Blue line stations will include:

1) Marina

2) Ebutte Ero

3) Iddo

4) National Theatre

5) Iganmu

6) Alaba

7) Mile 2

8 ) Festac

9) Alakija (Satellite Town)

10) Trade Fair Complex

11) Volkswagen

12) Lasu Gate

13) Okokomaiko.


Red Line stations include:

1) Marina

2) Ebutte Ero

3) Iddo

4) Ebutte Metta

5) Yaba

6) Jibowu

7) Mushin

8 ) Oshodi

9) Shogunle

10) Murtala Mohammed Airport (an arm of the line will branch off to the airport)

11) Ikeja

12) Agege

13) Iju

14) Agbado


Blue line station map
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Red line station map
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LRT overall map
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Lamata has proposed 7 lines. They are:

1) Blue line: Okokomaiko-Marina
2) Red Line: Agbado-MMIA-Marina
3) Green Line: Lekki Airport-Marina
4) Yellow Line: Otta-Iddo
5) Purple Line: Redeemed Camp-Ojo
6) Brown Line: Mile 12 - Marina
7) Orange Line: Redeemed Camp-Marina


Below is an overview of the project from Wikipedia.


Lagos Light Rail is a light rail system being developed in Lagos, Nigeria. The system is being sponsored by the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) and is envisioned to consist eventually of seven lines.[1] The railway equipment including electric power, signalling, rolling stock, and fare collection equipment will be provided by the private sector under a Concession Contract. LAMATA is responsible for policy direction, regulation, and infrastructure for the network.[2] The concessionaire will generate its own dedicated electricity.[3]

History

The idea of developing rapid transit in Lagos dates from the 1980s with the Lagos Metroline network conceived by the Alhaji Lateef Jakande during the Nigerian Second Republic.[4] The initial Metroline project was scrapped in 1985 by Muhammadu Buhari at a loss of over $78 million to the Lagos tax payers.[5] The idea of developing a light rail network for Lagos was revived by Governor Bola Tinubu in the early 2000s with a formal announcement of its construction in December 2003.[6] This initial $135 million proposal was part of the greater Lagos Urban Transportation Project to be implemented by the newly formed Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA).[6] LAMATA initially concentrated on developing a Bus Rapid Transit system, running from Mile 12 to Lagos Island. In 2008, LAMATA began also to make progress with the rail project, focussing initially on the Blue Line and the Red Line.

In September 2011, LAMATA announced that it would be acquring its older H5 and H6 subway cars from the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), a public transit operator based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, (as their transit operator is acquring its new articulated six-car fixed Toronto Rocket subway cars to replace the older cars) for its fleet of subway cars that would operate on the Blue and Red lines. [7]

Okokomaiko-Marina Blue Line

In April 2008, the Lagos State Government approved ₦ 70 billion for construction of the Okokomaiko-Iddo-Marina Line, with an estimated completion date of 2011.[2] Advisory services are being provided by CPCS Transcom Limited, an Infrastructure Development consulting firm based in Ottawa, Canada. Construction actually commenced in January 2010, and completion is now expected in 2015. The Blue Line is now being built by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation. The Blue Line will run 27.5 km from Marina to Okokomaiko, with 13 stations. End-to-end journey time will be approximately 35 minutes. It is being built as a high capacity, electrically powered rail mass transit system. Most of the route will be on the surface, running east-west, in the central reservation of the rebuilt Badagry Expressway between Igbo-Elerin Road (Okokomaiko) and Iganmu. The line will run on elevated structure from Iganmu along the south side of the expressway passing the junction with Eric Moore Road, crossing just south of the National Theatre to Iddo, then south to Lagos Island with a terminal at Marina. Construction is underway between National Theatre and Mile 2.,A Maintenance and Storage Facility (MSF) will be constructed at Okokomaiko, with a track connection from the Blue Line to the depot. The entire Blue Line will operate over a secure and exclusive right-of-way, with no level crossings and no uncontrolled access by pedestrians or vehicles. Lagos State is financing construction of the Blue Line from its own resources. A concession contract is being awarded to finance, supply and operate the railway equipment, including electric power, signalling, trains, and fare collection.

Proposed Blue Line Stations

Marina (shared with Red Line)

Ebute Ero (shared with Red Line)

Iddo (shared with Red Line)

National Theatre

Iganmu

Alaba

Mile 2

Festac

Alakija

Trade Fair

Volkswagen

LASU

Okokonaiko

Agbado-Marina Red Line

The second line, the Red Line, will run from Marina to Agbado. The line will share the existing 30 metre wide Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) right-of-way.[1]

Proposed Red Line stations

Marina (shared with Blue Line)

Ebute Ero (shared with Blue Line)

Iddo (shared with Blue Line)

Ebute Metta

Yaba

Jibouw

Mushin

Oshodi

Shogunie

Ikeja

Agege

Iju

Agbado

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos_Light_Rail

Construction
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Trains
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More info on these threads
https://www.nairaland.com/898591/fashola-woos-foreign-investment-partners

https://www.nairaland.com/934481/update-10-lane-lagos-badagry-expressway-pictures

https://www.nairaland.com/770192/hundreds-light-rail-trains-left

https://www.nairaland.com/955955/orile-light-rail-station-complete

ONWARDBABA: [b][/b]SOLD OUT TO A BETTER NAIRALANDER THANX [color=#770077][/color] GOD BLESS YOU SIR

maclatunji: Isn't the point of starting a project to complete it on time and not years later?

dabrake: Let's imagine the road is in a deplorable state, can't fashola repair it himself? He should learn from akpabio who rehabilitated most federal government oriented projects like roads, the university because 'it is a federal road but the majority of people affected are the akwa ibom indigenes. The university is a federal Government institution but 80% of her students are from akwa ibom. . .'
fashola should stop playing stupeeed politics here and fix that road irrespective of its level(whether state or federal) because those affected will be lagosians, that is if gej didn't really work on that road. Lagos state, as far as I am concerned, is the richest state in the country and also with the smallest landmass. If brf can't fix that little challenge, I will be forced to ask what he's doing with tax payer's money. If amaechi, oshiohmole and akpabio can do it, why not brf?

maclatunji: @bolded, Dedeike mentioned this same road being rehabilitated as one of GEJ's achievements on July 29, 2012 and Fashola is writing Jonathan on the deplorable state of the same road in January 2013.

This can probably only happen in Nigeria. To make matters worse, they are asking us to allow GEJ do it again. Why won't they? When many Nigerians cannot reason beyond the current frivolity that they will be dashed for voting "GEJ not PDP".

omowolewa: Informative! How can I locate my house on google map. I can't find it.

Eko Ile: @ nap2u.


Thanks for the wonderful pictures...

[size=14pt]So where are the seeds?[/size]

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Dr. Akinwumi Adesina

Guest Columnist By NASIRU SUWAID

One of the biggest problems  affecting most of the poor  nations of the world, with  Nigeria being a prominent member of the block occupying the lower rungs of international development, is the adoption of wrong policy choices. 


It was a spectacular sight to behold, as the image appeared on the screen, of a village farmer making an enquiry on the promised free seeds and subsidized fertilizer. 

By the way, he was attired with an old and archaic hoe by the right shoulder, while a water jug stayed by the left hand, you could easily have mistaken him for a 15th century commoner peer, had Nigeria being a study in class relations of the past era.

 Actually, the obviously and psychologically tormented farmer who is subject of this essay, was answering a question with a question in one of the local television stations, on whether he had been able to secure the necessary farming production supports, that had been promised by the federal government, as part of its new public/private partnership in the agricultural sector called Nigerian Incentive based Risk Sharing for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL). 

The reason for the genuine worry was that it is almost at the end of July, which for a vocation that is almost dependant on a seasonal rainfall, unavailability of the promised agricultural inputs portends a grave danger in loss of time, required for a farmer to plant his or her crops and them getting the proper nourishment of the natural moisture through the perennial torrents of rain droppings.

 One of the biggest problems affecting most of the poor nations of the world, with Nigeria being a prominent member of the block occupying the lower rungs of international development, is the adoption of wrong policy choices. Which are either proposed by international financial institutions, that do not have clear understanding of the local idiosyncrasies of the countries of application or rather the enabling of organizations and individuals that are having little proximate relationship with a particular sector of the economy, to formulate policies for such a sub-sector that they neither have much knowledge of, nor having tangible understanding of its operating environment.

A classic example is the case of the new and current agricultural policy in Nigeria, a singular initiative of the Central Bank of Nigeria, which clearly exhibits a definite contempt of the mother ministry, going by the fact that from its unveiling by governor of the apex bank himself, to its general funding and operative administration, to its promotional sponsoring in local television stations, the image is that of a baby of the national bank. 

The new concept is premised on an E-wallet initiative, which enables a local farmer to receive alerts on a mobile phone, about the availability of the best variety of seeds and subsidized fertilizer, with the announcement of its presence in a nearby private agricultural store. Upon reaching the commercial enterprise all that is required of the farmer is the proof of participation in the program, after which he or she signs a voucher of the full sum, while remitting only fifty percent of the cost of the fertilizer. 

Then the farmer is also expected to get free portion of the highly improved seeds on offer. In an ideal situation and taken from the realm of mere bureaucratic projection, it could easily be dreamed as a roaring success. 

However, it is when placed on the pedestal of cold hard reality of implementation, coupled with its insertion into the cataclysmic mix of an unstable operating Nigerian environment, a great and revolutionary agricultural idea crystallizes into an unworkable government policy initiative.

 The first challenge being the fundamental necessity of capturing the participating farmers in the program, however as at the present period, only ten percent or less of the hundred and forty million people, with a verified projection of over sixty percent of the citizenry being actively engaged in the agricultural sub-sector, it is neither feasible nor rational for a program to disenfranchise so many of its eligible participants, yet expect to achieve any expectation of success in setting an agenda for the modernization of the Nigerian agricultural system. 

Indeed like any initiative in Africa and particularly in the Nigerian nation, it is on the crux of implementation that the country always spectacularly falters, especially when the formulators exhibit such lack of judgment, as to deny the farmer seeds at the eve of the month of August, simply because the necessary paper work for the take-up of the program has not been finished. 

Despite the many challenges afflicting most of the critical aspects of the new policy, the fact that the aim of its unveiling, which is to proactively tackle corruption in the agricultural sector of the economy, could still be defeated because of the gullible systemic belief in the sacredness of the payment voucher, dispersed in hundreds of remote village in the custody of private entrepreneurs that are answerable only to the gods of profit margin. 

The temptation is easily to fraudulently sign-off the vouchers as sold to a hapless farmer, thus collecting the remittance from the government, while at the time hoarding the products for onward transmission to city markets and probable selling at exorbitant commercial rates. 

Indeed such a scenario has a precedent in the recent times, as both the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Probe, chaired by the controversial Faruk Lawan and the Presidential Technical Committee on Fuel Subsidy Management, under the leadership of Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, have concluded into their report the criminal and conspiratorial complicity of the officials of Petroleum Pricing Management Committee (PPMC), in effecting and perpetuating fraud in the administration of the funds meant for the sustenance of the subsidy regime in the downstream sector of the petroleum industry. Thus for the personnel of the contemptuously ignored parent ministry of agriculture, the opportunity of fleecing a fund imbued with many hardly to monitor holes is too tempting to pass-by, while for the economic managers of the present administration, who have trumpeted times without number, about their gross aversion to subsidy support mechanisms in governance, being only tools for corruption. The Nigerian Incentive based Risk Sharing for Agricultural Lending and the E-wallet initiative is a similar type avenue where civil servants collaborate with the private sector to defraud the government, albeit at the expense of the poor Nigerian farmer.

intrepid: Thanks 4 your link but how many of our farmers even know how to use text messaging?and has our govt created any robust technology to use short code sms for farmers that will give instant feedback about prices of products? I doubt.