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Aareonakakanfo:
The blue line is from Okoko-Marina.I want to know if the 8 lane road from mile 2-badagry is part of the rail project or an entirely different project because this is what I found on their website and i didn't see anything like badagry

Blue Line - Okokomaiko to Marina
Red Line - Agbado to Marina via Iddo and Muritala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA)
Other routes for development are:
Green Line -Marina to Lekki (Airport)
Yellow Line -Otta to Iddo
Purple Line Redeem to Ojo
Orange Line- Redeem to Marina
Brown Line- Mile 12 to Marina

Road works
The Lagos State Ministry of Works is saddled with the responsibility of reconstructing the roads leading through the routes of the rail. Presently the road infrastructure is almost nearing completion. The initial challenge encountered by the ministry was getting the Right-of-Way. Several houses had to give way for the road expansion from four to 10 lane road.

The ongoing 10 lane expansion of the expressway road project with a flexible rail built into it at inception was divided into three lots. Lot 1 is from Eric Moore to Mile 2, which is about 7.5 kilometres, while Lot 2 is from Mile 2 to Agbara, a distance of about 28 kilometres and Lot 3 from Agbara to Badagry, all 10 lanes. http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/06/many-challenges-lagos-lite-rail-project-2/

tpiah11:
you have lost touch with reality.

MayorofLagos:
Im eating, reading, typing, got music in my ears, heading to meeting in a few mins, need to send email, need to call my love and blow kiss...again, i need water, i should skip respond to this rail thingy but i cant cause when i saw it i was in a train snaking through subterranean tunnels....so i rearranged to do list and put on my thinking hat....


Im not a social critic but I would recommend that as a first rule we create a meaningful rating system for producing performance stats and scoring for administrators...that way we cn rate on big projects like this. Venting on a waste of public resource do us no good

The rail system is proposed as a solution to ease Lagos traffic. Why is Lagos traffic this bad? Due to population explosion. Why are there so many people in Lagos? Due to its relative modernity and urban profile. So will the addition of this rail system increase that profile and appeal? Yes. What can be expected? No one in Lagos will leave but more people will troop in to experience the new glamor and make the population problem worse. Will this situation ease Lagos traffic? No, it will worsen it.

Sustainability. Our mindset, habits and reactions to infrastructure and environment has not improved and we still respond to our environment in a stand-offish manner as consumers instead of owners. So we must be sincere with ourselves. After the whites passed administration of Nigerian Railway Corporation to us we ran it to the ground. Same with Apapa ports. Same with airline. We can't maintain roads, can't maintain buildings, we do not maintain drainage and sewer, when whites ran this country our water pipes flowed...not any more, we can't even generate and distribute electiricity successfully and consistently. So what public infrastructure do we maintain in our society? None! Now we are adding another burden to the public treasury.

Are we matured to handle the responsibility that comes with owning, operating and sustaining a rail transport system?

Aareonakakanfo:
I'm telling you sister mi.I dislike those characters with a passion.The first one who came at least was a very intelligent character.This second character is just something else

LaudateII:
Those saying Lagos - Badagry may have a point, because the 10-lane expressway that is being constructed alongside the rail line, was meant to be executed in 3 phases.

Kindly see the comments below:



sorry, spam bots got my moniker...

Shymm3x:
I concur.

The people in Lagos are just too many for the infrastructures there and no matter what they do, the pressure will always overwhelm whatever infrastructures they build there.

Lagos needs a rapid depopulation exercise/drive before they start adding more to what is now already a snarled-up gigantic ghetto.

They need to move a lot of things out the place and give it one identity. You don't even the crowd in the people to generate a lot of revenue - banking and servicing alone, if well managed, should be able to sustain Lagos. The meagre IGR the crowd contribute is not worth the pressure they put on the infrastructures there.

They might as well give the pikeys a functional seaport somewhere in the South South and start diverting all their goods. Lagos should only serve the SW. Then move a lot of industries, especially manufacturing, to Ogun and Oyo. Then move other things to other parts of the SW.

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LaudateII:
Sir, there are 3 functional sea ports in the South-south (SS). There is Calabar port (which needs dredging); the Port-Harcourt Sea Port in Rivers State, and the Federal Ocean Terminal at Onne. But the importers do not want to use it, because they claim that cost of clearing at those ports are high (e.g. Onne terminal).

LaudateII:
Sir, there are 3 functional sea ports in the South-south (SS). There is Calabar port (which needs dredging); the Port-Harcourt Sea Port in Rivers State, and the Federal Ocean Terminal at Onne. But the importers do not want to use it, because they claim that cost of clearing at those ports are high (e.g. Onne terminal).

LaudateII:
Sir, there are 3 functional sea ports in the South-south (SS). There is Calabar port (which needs dredging); the Port-Harcourt Sea Port in Rivers State, and the Federal Ocean Terminal at Onne. But the importers do not want to use it, because they claim that cost of clearing at those ports are high (e.g. Onne terminal).

LaudateII:
Sir, there are 3 functional sea ports in the South-south (SS). There is Calabar port (which needs dredging); the Port-Harcourt Sea Port in Rivers State, and the Federal Ocean Terminal at Onne. But the importers do not want to use it, because they claim that cost of clearing at those ports are high (e.g. Onne terminal).

modath2:
Or the Ocean liners don't go there?

Is it not an FG controlled port? Why the price discrepancy? If truly that is the fact, why don't they agitate for a price parity, but methinks they just prefer Lagos..

Shymm3x made a lot of sense with the depopulation idea , there are too many people in that city!!

The infrastructures & the population are miles apart.

anonimi:
E be like sey una go give me the kain jazz wey una take dey sabi where person come from on this faceless forum. Maybe if I have it I might also start scamming people as a prophet

If it is bigot to make constructive criticism of a person/group then many parents will be considered bigots by their children, not so

In any case whether you should note that I do not need to PROVE to anyone of you that I am Yoruba. I know who I am and if you are seeking proof, you can keep waiting.

superstar1:
The only way Lagos can ever be depopulated is if and only if Biafra sees the light of day.

Those guys keep migrating to Lagos on a daily basis like the Syrians are migrating to Europe.

superstar1:
Even if they make those ports duty free, they will still prefer Lagos ports, because of the population and the comparative number of people in this axis that have purchasing power to buy those goods being imported.

Shymm3x:
Loool. I'm not a "Sir" lol.

It's not about what the importers want. They need to just direct their goods there.

I think the LASG needs to lobby the FG to issue that directive. Goods meant for SE and SS should go to their regions. Everyone/everything in Nigeria can't be in Lagos. These folks are destroying the place and the infrastructures.

Firefire:
Anonimi, are you a Yoruba ?

anonimi:
Whose fault is it that the dumbos who have been in charge of Lagos for the last 16 plus years have not struck an optimal DIVERSE tax/levies/rates/fines etc structure to benefit from this "comparative number of people in this axis that have purchasing power"?
Why has this not been done till date and continuously re-invest the IGR into:

- education,
- tap water
- health clinics & general hospitals
- good railways & roads
- electricity


that will allow the state and LGAs to generate even more money

LaudateII:
Sir, there are 3 functional sea ports in the South-south (SS). There is Calabar port (which needs dredging); the Port-Harcourt Sea Port in Rivers State, and the Federal Ocean Terminal at Onne. But the importers do not want to use it, because they claim that cost of clearing at those ports are high (e.g. Onne terminal).

anonimi:
Ma da awon alaimokan ti won nse bi enipe won damo lohun o jare.
I don't need to prove being Yoruba to any of them.
Their doubts will not and cannot stop me from making constructive contribution to enable sustainable development of Yorubaland/Nigeria, Africa etc.

superstar1:
Though, if other congruent cities also up their game, it will stem the wave of migration from other places into Lagos.

theV0ice:
Ibadan is already expanding too due to the same migration. Two of my colleagues in portharcourt have already relocated their families to Ibadan and have even started building their houses there.

I don't know whether to or

superstar1:
You must be high on 3 for 1 weed.

Which state drives IGR as much as Lagos? I have told you, you are not cut out for this kind of thread. Migrate to any of wailers or PDP or sexuality threads or linda ikeji no brainer's blog.

Aareonakakanfo:
The same issue Lagos is facing with regards to romanis is the same issue Ibadan is facing with regards to Hausas/Fulanis from the north

anonimi:
Your ASPIRATION level must be very low indeed.
No wonder you are on this empty "feel-good" thread. I hope it is not a reflection of how you are offline.
Have you heard of the Ebenezer effect?- Titi de ihin ni Oluwa ran wa l'owo de i.e. na up to here God helep us reach

If there are too many people in a place supposedly with money that they are making from the area then TAX them until the peripheral low lifers drift away to other outlying places.
How can that be so complicated
Just make sure the money is reinvested to make the place very nice for those who remain and pay the HIGH taxes/levies/fines etc.

theV0ice:
Ibadan is not only about Hausa/Fulani o.

Even well to do Niger Deltans are relocating in their numbers because of its serenity and abundance of good schools for children.

At least that's what pushed the colleagues I mentioned there.

superstar1:
Another below par post from akpu filled cerebellum, typing gibberish and calling it communication.

I repeat which state is driving IGR and tax collection like Lagos? name just one. Is that too difficult for you to answer?

Firefire:
I will not agree to the idea of further driving the Taxes upward in Lagos, we are already under heavy and double taxation of different kinds...

- PAYE
- Consumption Tax
- Land Use Charge
- Etc

And yet social / infrastructure facilities are not evenly distributed.

I think the solution would be to develop standard transportation system, e.g Either low -high speed trains to connect cities, like in Europe...

anonimi:
Were black people making anything near Nokia 3310 less than 15 years ago?
Why did our white "superiors" not stay at that ASPIRATION level since no other race was making mobile phones like them?
Instead they kept and continue expanding their horizon continuously to the smart phones we have now that are even been developed further?
I have tried to avoid calling YOU stupid or foolish but you leave me no choice at this point but to call you what you are.
BTW what other solution do you have to depopulate METROPOLITAN Lagos
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