The Lagos cable car project is on course. It is privately driven and the private sector need to get all the permits.



After three years of postponement, work has begun on the $275million cable car project.
In an interview with The Guardian, Lagos state Commissioner for Transportation, Dayo Mobereola, revealed intricate details of the car project.
“The Lagos cable car project is on course. It is privately driven and the private sector need to get all the permits, on the side of Lagos, we have given them all the necessary permit, they are talking to the federal government to get some level of guarantees and we have assisted them to write to the federal government. They have taken the advantage by starting to build from the Iddo side of Lagos."


Upon completion, the project will have eight stations in three routes, in order to handle the estimated 240,000 trips daily.

The car project will begin at Ijora, then move to Apapa and Victoria Island, with a central hub around Adeniji Adele.

MagLev Pods Set To Transform Transport In Lago


The system is designed to fit within the Yellow Line of the Lagos’s Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA). Nigeria then intends to integrate this into a country wide network.

skyTrans is using an innovative implementation of an energy-efficient, elevated, magnetic levitation system. The system comes in two flavours, the skyTran Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) or Cargo Rapid Transit (CRT); carrying people or freight respectively.

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The network is built up from autonomous computer controlled “pods”. These pods might look like jets but they work using MagLev. MagLev works by allowing pods to glide above the track, supported by magnetic repulsion and propelled by a linear motor. As the pods do not touch the track, there is no friction to slow them down. This means they can travel very quickly compared a traditional train.

Once a pod reaches a speed of 10mp they can then glide on the track without requiring additional power, or accelerate up to speeds of 155mph.

The major advantage of SkyTrans is not just technological. SkyTrans are hoping to deploy the system for a cost of £13m per mile, compared to an estimated cost of £160m for an underground system.

Jerry Sanders, skyTrans Chairman, has described the Lagos project as “open[ing] the door to a new era of transportation in Africa”. Stating that “one of the major impediments to African growth is its poor transportation infrastructure”.

Interested in finding out more about SkyTrans. View their TedX talk below.

http://www.borntoengineer.com/maglev-pods-set-transform-transport-lago/

agabusta:
So many opportunities in Lagos.

agabusta:
So many opportunities in Lagos.

agabusta:
So many opportunities in Lagos.

dafuturis:
A welcomed development

Kudos to Lagos state government.

kaen1317:
The north has Abuja, the West has Lagos, what does the East have? Nothing