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nlfpmod:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-08-29/nigeria-s-failed-train-shows-how-not-to-build-public-transit?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-africa&utm_content=africa&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#xj4y7vzkg

sulaak:
They did feasibility studies, this is a very good project. The design that has been shared on this thread and demonstrates that the railway links the airport to Abuja City Airport t the city centre. Over the years, new settlements have been developed all over Abuja, and there is now a requirement to expand the project to integrate the poor sectors of the city.

This is a brilliant project; maintenance and operational capital might not exist to operate the railway.. The yellow section has been completed.

As usual, Bloomberg is just ignorant about Africa; they should have posted the map of the railway light shown below...

duro4chang:
But obi will never be president. He is labouring in vain

Dougad:
APC fool dey wail.

Your mouth odor dey block my direction. Shit go corner

Solsix:
Funny enough they were constructed with borrowed funds

Jeezuzpick:


Oya, Oga Professor,

Which data you dey use to SHIT?

Lemme tell you.....

Before information becomes data, some effort must have been put into it to give it structure and meaning.

turmacs:
The train in heading in the same direction as Nigeria, "to no where"

tete7000:
Leave bloomberg alone. Despite the billions spent on it,the rail system is not working. That is an indictment already. If it is working, will they have the effontery to write? Learn to look inward and stop blaming others for your woes. Dead railway that gulped billions is a clear indication of incompetence and cluelessness.

moshino:
How is it "funny"?

sulaak:
What is enlightened about his thread?

Metro or light railways are interoperability infrastructures designed to support other means of transport. The Lagos Red line will allow commuters from Ikorodu to travel via bus, Uber or passenger car to the local train station and Lagos Island by avoiding the 4-hour traffic. Commuting to Lagos Island will fall to 1 hour from 4 hours.

Gajagojo:
That is the extent of your brain capacity.

You cannot outdo your brain
DNA is data
all molecular and submolecular interaction is data
The entire existence is data
light,heat sound smell anything that exists is data. You just don't have the brain power to process that.
You cut your hair or your nails and data is transmitted triggering regrowth.
You die? data is transmitted and maggots appear
You have an undergraduate mindset capable of learning other people's ideas but not of thinking your own

sulaak:
They did feasibility studies, this is a very good project. The design that has been shared on this thread and demonstrates that the railway links the airport to Abuja City Airport t the city centre. Over the years, new settlements have been developed all over Abuja, and there is now a requirement to expand the project to integrate the poor sectors of the city.

This is a brilliant project; maintenance and operational capital might not exist to operate the railway.. The yellow section has been completed.

As usual, Bloomberg is just ignorant about Africa; they should have posted the map of the railway light shown below...

1Alex:
Ok

Solsix:
Funny enough they were constructed with borrowed funds

descarado:
Because from the womb you as a black man has been programmed to think only about you.

When you give out, u make the world know or you give out selfishly. You believe you have a reward. Even your kids that you train, you had hope they will look after you when you get old.
My dear, that's the black man's mentality.

Have you ever thought of how you will retire?
Planning towards it?

If you go to grocery stores where I lice, uou have small section where shoppers drop in anything they feel like after shopping for the hungry. They look for no glorification. You will not even know somebody put in something. There're days kids donate small token for the hungry. It's a ritual you grow up with and you just continue with it.
Children are encouraged to give out what they don't use anymore in schools. Little children. They will just tell their parents. Even though there are food and cloth banks, these kids are encouraged to see giving as serving the society. People that did outstanding deeds are honoured.
Kids are encouraged to pick dirt and put in designated bins. Fastwords to 60yrs later, you will see wrinkled oldies doing the same. You know why, cos they were programmed to do that from cradle.

It's all about money for the black man especially Nigerian. Nigeria will never be OK with such mindset. Tomorrow, if you are in their shoe, you will behave exactly like them.
It's psychological.

Jeezuzpick:
What is this one saying?

We are not discussing philosophy here, Bro.

Jeezuzpick:
Lagos is not Abuja.

Okay, let's even leave out the fact that the crazy hold-up that's the norm everywhere in Lagos only happens in some areas in Abuja at peak hours,

Kindly explain why the light rail is dead, even when complete.

My own explanation is, it's USELESS!

it's there to fulfil a nonexistent purpose.

In Lagos, it will work fine. In Abuja......useless, at least for now and the nearest future.

You'll understand if you live or have lived in Abuja with its 8-lane roads and high-speed traffic.

Greattha:
@ bolded.

I like the enthusiasm with which you've driven home your point...

However, riddle me this; what kind of feasibility study did they do that obviously didn't include efficient and effective operation of the rail system?

I bet the contractors went back to the BPP to request for variation yet...if you know, you know

IMHO, that's cos it was never intended to serve it's true purpose.

But I hear you.

Ticketing corruption by railway staff, soldiers, and policemen derailing the Abuja-Kaduna rail project (2)
Fisayo Soyombo
Fisayo Soyombo

September 28, 2020
https://businessday.ng/businessday-investigation/article/ticketing-corruption-by-railway-staff-soldiers-policemen-derailing-abuja-kaduna-rail-project-2/

Mandate1:
This is what you get when tribal and ethic sentiments is primary in designing and building national infrastructure.

Among the regions in Nigeria, the Easterners do more of the travelling, and it's natural for such litmus test through a novel project should put them into consideration first, since it's purely business oriented.

A East - west rail line would have made more sense, as this will create more avenue for local investors to even have their own coaches. Every Xmas, Igbos throng enmass to the east and same to Lagos and south west afterwards.

I'm not saying the Easterners are more deserving of such infrastructure than others, but using that as a testing ground wud aid better knowledge on how to adapt it in other areas where the citizens hardly commute like the easterners.

Nigeria can only get better when we become more nationalistic in approach.

sulaak:
Chief,

The Abuja Light rail is dead because of corruption and incompetence, even the Lagos Metro will not survive Nigeria's corruption, stealing tickets and selling them without remittance to the central government will destroy any operation.

sulaak:
This is just stupid.

An East-West railway line is not a priority. Railways linking the North to the Southern port should be the priority.

An upgraded SDR railway that links the South-South ports (Warri, Port Harcourt, Onne, Calabar) to the North via the Eastern State, North Central and North East will transform the South East.

Gajagojo:
Who is discussing philosophy
I am discussing basic physics
I am talking about data and telling you your brain capacity is low.

Data is not a function of human beings .Data exists independent of human existence

Everything in the physical world is data.

duro4chang:
But obi will never be president. He is labouring in vain