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CodeTemplar:
Do you use a paid plurasight account or you got it from torrent?

ClassicMcGee:
please can you send the pdf to my email? Mcgeehayjay@gmail.com

i don't know if i'm allowed to post my contacts.

Jayremayah:
This didn't work for me
Help please I use a note5 redmi

alosbaba007:
Let me start by saying, u need to be patient. If u get everything right it takes about 15mins for d SIM to start working on mi max. It took almost an hour d first time I inserted it into my phone. Am using the same mui version as urs so u are fine

Here are the steps I took, decide the SIM slot u wanna use but in my case am using SIM 1.

As usual Xiaomi SIM service came up blocking the SIM card so i connected to my friends hotspot den set ntel to LTE only and restrict Etisalat to 3G Nd 2G.

U will be asked to provide Ur mi account password depending on d kind of security settings.

Note All this will pop up during first time use.

Go to settings > About phone > tap on internal storage
3 times till it shows another page, follow the screen shots below and make sure u are still connected to an hotspot.

U will repeat the process in d screenshot anytime u reboot Ur fone for ntel to work.

Pls my Ogas u can add more cc:- jboixxx, gptech,

deomelo:
Going by the same pictures, the bridge sits in and consumed just the middle lane with rooms left on the right and left sides of the bridge for vehicular traffic below.

Are we not looking at cars moving on both sides of the bridge in the other pictures?

deomelo:
No offense, I don't see any meaning, logic or relevance in your argument. I'll pass.

adanny01:
This fly over does not lift the pre existing road off the ground and off the commercial area, no. The fly over is like an entirely new road constructed with piers in the middle section of the pre existing road leaving the old road in place. This means that there is an under pass and over pass.

My words in Red

deomelo:
Going by the pictures, we can not even see the foot of the bridge or whatever traffic you are talking about at the foot of the bridge. The bridge goes as far as the eyes can see, we can not even see the on or off ramp apart from exist for traffic heading to other parts of the city.

The bridge obviously glossed over the central market and business district area and many intersections.









The bridge can in no way be too long if the idea is to move people, goods and services from one end of the city to the other end with ease and away from bustling traffic and intersections below which saves time, manpower and productive hours, reduces traffic stress, accident and ultimately money.




You are not projecting anything different from what they did apart from adding the extra lanes above in form of a flyover.

They obviously can not do what you are suggesting without bulldozing and eliminate established businesses in the area, without incurring exorbitant compensations, without relocating power and poles communication cables or poles, maybe water pipes or gas lies, possible court litigations and so on.

So, avoiding all that extra cost, time and headache mean going overhead and achieve the same goals on a better scale.


Case study::: 10 lanes Lagos Badagry expressway. Some people are asking why it's taking too long to complete the project, but news flash, the state is in court battling many business and homeowners who are refusing to relocate, demanding excessive compensations, they are dealing with power companies to relocate power lines and cables and so on.

You obviously lessen the cost, headache, time and energy by going overhead.


I'm almost 100% they saw your option, they encountered difficulties and needless cost before going overhead.





The issue here is obviously vehicular traffic and not human traffic and you don't need a long bridge or flyover to move human traffic from one side of the road to the next.

The obvious reason is, of course, to move people, goods and services from one end of the city to the next. There's absolutely no reason to spend 1 or more hour shuttling within the city instead of 10 minutes. Time is money and the more money people and businesses make = more money for the state and the city.




Why go through all that? If your destination and or emergency services means using the flyover to get to where you are going or the hospital, you get on it and if it's accessible down below, then use the surface roads. Simple.

This has nothing to do with engineering, this basic traffic management and the state building problem-solving infrastructure to improve quality of life, save human and productive hours, cost of duing business and pollution.

adanny01:
I didnt read beyond your 1st paragraph when i had an example in mind where all you have said cannot be a solution in the Nigerian context.

I do not know which city you live in but the example that comes to my mind is Deidei in Kubwa express of FCT. For those familiar with the rush hr issues, the Nigerian factor will make your solution useless.

In case you dont know Kubwa express or Deidei, Kubwa express is one of 2 biggest roads in FCT, it is a 10 lane expressway running from Asokoro to Zuba. It has 3 fast lanes and 2 service lanes each direction. Now, Deidei has a popular building materials market so a pedestrian bridge has been constructed across the road.

The main issue with Deidei is that tankers and haulage trucks park on shoulders of the service lane sometimes causing holdups. Commercial cars also avoid the service lanes due to this, preferring to drop and pick passengers on the shoulders of the fast lane. The Nigerian factor then comes in where commercial drivers hustle for passengers to the extent they park parallel to each other. This parallel parking and the constant need for each cab operator to be selfish thereby pulling out of lane from parking position just to go in front of his rival then stop again. Before you realise, they have taken 2 of the 3 lanes with cars often pulling out to the 3rd lane from parking. It is usually chaotic.

This affects multiple locations along the Kubwa express. The second problem is that ppl refuse to use the pedestrian bridges, causing accidents on the fast lane. Ppl are crushed to death almost on weekly basis.

The solution was to erect barb wire fence 200m each side of the bridge to discourage foot crossings. That reduced but did not eliminate the problem because some ppl decided to walk to the ends of fence then cross or stop a cab on the fast lane. Within a few yrs, the fence would hv been broken down by buglers hungry for steel. Thereafter, problem returns.

This is a practical example where road expansions does not provide a direct solution to traffic congestions.

Now, back to the Kano overpass, i want to suggest you look at the pictures very closely. With the number of street access from that road, even a 10lane express way will be encroached upon by hawkers, cab drivers and passengers. There are streets, warehouses, supermarkets etc directly accessing the road. The issues with the road is the number of intersections. In road design no building is supposed to access an expressway directly. The access roads are supposed to be traffic collectors. This situation in Kano cannot be achieved. It needs planning and alot of reorganizing of a very large area.

The shortest time of travel across this congested area can only be achieved by an overpass. An overpass eliminates all intersections while also restricting hawkers and the cab driver attitude of picking and dropping passengers on the highway.

Lastly, about the bolded, the road is not the cause of the commercial center, it is the commercial business (ware houses, supermarkets, office buildings which brings motor parks and hawkers). The overpass does not move away the commercial center, it provides and option to bypass it. Why would activity move to the foot of the bridge over a kilometer away with no source of commercial activities?

This same kind of fly over provided a simple solution to the congestion in Kawo Kaduna. However, the lenght was too short to be 100% effective but i will rate it 70% effective in the Kaduna situation.

adanny01:
Leave engineering to engineers.

The under pass is already a dual carriageway but the challenge is that the road has too many access roads and properties that access the road directly. This will constantly cause traffic jams and increase travel time.

If they plan the road wider, a lot of properties will be affected and it doesn't make the access roads disappear. The problem just reduces but will not disappear while the expansion will gulp huge funds due to compensations and relocations.

Construction of a parallel over pass solves the problem permanently. Those who wish to access internal areas of the city need not bother about all the access traffic in the under pass and get to their destination inside the city with no traffic lights or intersections to worry about.

The main aim is time of travel.

madridsta007:
Thank God you said, it is a "retort".
I do not respond to retorts.

Have a great rest of your day. Cheers.

madridsta007:
Sentiment-laden. Lol. Seems the use of English is lost on you— and I can appreciate this. English isn’t the black man’s natural forte. Suddenly, “copyright infringement”, “copyright laws” and piracy means nothing. Because this is clearly your point. Well, in an insane society, nothing really means anything, really. You are right.

Have a great day. I have no more to say to you.

madridsta007:
The operative word, if you had read well, is “SANE country.”

Of course one can not describe Nigeria as a sane country, if one is honest. A country that Fulani herdsmen terrorists butchered civilians for almost 48 hours and the President and citizens looked the other way, is no sane country.

In a sane country, you can’t even photocopy clips of textbooks as we do in Nigeria, without “accepting” some legal terms. In a sane country, publishing when you do not have the rights, is called piracy.

Have a great Sunday.

1shortblackboy:
it is a copyright infringement and against d law. Besides money was used to publish it and they need the money from d sales to continue publishing

madridsta007:
Ever heard the word called, “piracy”?

It’s a crime in sane countries. Copyright infringement is illegal. A crime.
I’m sure you know this. Do not let the emotional urge to mock the church becloud your sense of judgement.

introvertme:
I'm talking about voice not if he's released an album

introvertme:
A Very good singer ooo,he sang tonight and radio its grown really popular amongst Nigerians in the u.k ,

he's Johnny drille kind of good

dollynnn:
he is yet to finish it tho...
more of his works

gdengad:
Have been unable to print my call-up letter since morning, but i was able to check where i was been posted to yesterday morning, my mistake was that have already paid the cafe woman and she failed to print the letter for me yesterday. She said the letter has been saved on her pc which letter turn out to be false when i check on her today....Please what is really happening to Nysc portal

adanny01:
This is where i dont agree.

Have you heard of instrument error or tolerance? One speedometer can be accurate to the nearest 0.1km/h but another may be accurate to 0.01km/h. This will create an error that one car will pass another.

100.1km/h is not the same as 100.001km/h. This is what instrument error can cause.

Secondly, speedometer reading errors. A car like 2006 Honda accord with digital speedometer will be far more accurate than a car with analog dail speedometer. Physics practical errors included parallax errors especially with reading dails. A digital speedometer eliminates parallax and other errors.

For example, when live scanning my car, the RPM on the dash remains very stable at 800rpm but in the live scan, it never stays at exactly 800rpm. It constantly changes between 798-802rpm.

This is also true for the speedometer, when i think am at exactly 100km/h, the live scan will be more precise showing me either more or less say 98km/h or 102km/h.

I have also used GPS speedometer. A GPS is more accurate when it connects to as many satelites as possible, the fewer the less accurate.

Hypothetically, 100km/h in car A is the same as 100km/h in car B assuming no errors. Ofcourse there are errors.

Everyone knows numbers are 1, 2, 3 ...... Like kids think, when they grow further they are thougt fractions 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 etc. So the fact that speed is speed is true but there are other things you need to take account when you go into testing for speed.

The highlight in the screen shot is the issue am talking about.

erico2k2:
This is getting quiet annoying seriously by saying you are getting FRUSTRATED, it is not by force or a MUST that you must post a RESPONSE, so why the frustration
Anyway I'm done with this

ZarZar:
That's on them & the risk they're willing to take. Not my problem! I just don't have enough trust in people to even attempt something like this.