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On board the newly commissioned Lagos Blue Rail
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- Опубліковано 23 гру 2022
- One of the unique features of the Blue Rail Line is that it is only powered by electricity and has a backup independent power plant spanning 27 kilometers long. GuardianTV's Lois Ogunniyi took a ride and has these to say.
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Nice to see that the blue line has been completed. Future rail projects must be built by Nigerian engineers.
Nigerians are already members of the construction team. Leaving it solely to Nigerian Engineers now may not be wise. This arrangement I think is good for now.
Nice wish! Future professional footballers in England must be Europeans only?? Nice try. Tomorrow you will still complain of racism but you wish it happens here?
Where were Nigerian Engineers all these decades?
@@Eazi179 Our history is different though, you can at least understand why people are skeptical of foreign engineers because that's like spoon feeding the population skills that they should have learnt by themselves. I agree with you partially though, it's not a big deal to me.
@@olaitanjosephalao2506 I agree.
Good to see Lagos is looking beautiful now, I am Indian lived for few years in Lagos & still I remember this city & its people , I miss Lagos
Exactly! easing traffic gridlock in Lagos is the bottom line. I am hopeful this will happen... unlike the BRT project...
Hi This is quite a great relief to Lagosians as it has help to save them from the stress and pain of spending hours in Lagos traffic jam .....I am sure many mottorists will abandone their cars for this new save smooth time saving and comfortable way of travelling or going about their work or businesses in Lagos .
CONGRATULATIONS TO LAGOS STATE GOVENMENT
This is the rail project that Governor Lateef Jakande wanted to implement in the early 80s but that the then military dictator General Buhari scuttled and jailed the Governor. 40 years later the same Buhari now president inaugurated the project. Imagine all the progress & development that was prevented in the span of 40 years. We need visionary and competent leaders more than ever.
I have watched this more than normal, i am proud and impressed 💪🏾
This will surely be a game changer for lagos and other cities aswell 🙌
Exactly
It's a game changer but projects take too damn long man. How can people celebrate something that has taken this long to build. Better than nothing I guess
How can one nit celebrate this. No matter how long it’s taken to build. It took just over a year to complete after over 10 years of stagnatiion…the others will hopefully go faster
@@chindaoparanma248 U shouldnt feel bad about it, im in America and having newly built public transit seems like a pipe-dream here, im jealous of my Nigerian brothers tbh
Yes I heard something similar about developmental projects in the US taking for ever to conclude the planning stage. As of the OP lamenting on how long it took to build, even in the US project span across multiple administrations.
Do it, Nigeria! You make me so proud!
Great! and finally open to Public on September the 4th! Go Lagos!
I'm really impressed by this kudos to all You made this happen cause these what we see in the Western world...Hope other Mega cities takes a queue...Very applaudable...Hope other lines are finished on time.
Great development. Anticipating more mind blowing infrastructural projects as this. You people are Eagles a.nd great managers. Well done.
Deeply refreshing. Well done !
I hope the cost is as it is ? Doing great things should be a double approach integrity costing and delivery. I hope both ends are critic proof at least over 80 to 90%
This is impressive, kudos to the Lagos government for bringing this to reality other Nigerian state governments need to learn from this. However I hope the government doesn’t stop there, maintenance is key, Nigerians has a way of jettison and maybe making light of great infrastructure like this. Also aesthetic is important there need to be a law against posting bills on these arenas, dropping refuse just anywhere and being disorderly. There needs to be good security to protect the people on board as well.
Congratulations to the Lagos state government and her people.
Good, very good. I'm happy that this is happening when I am alive. This is great! God bless me, Lagos and Nigeria. I'm happy living in Lagos. The Fed govt. can learn from Lagos. Wow!!!
God bless All the settlers who Appreciate our accommodation tendencies not Ndi igbos land grabbers Always criticizing our home land for their greedy motives they must go back home to fix their region is high time igbos aren't important to.our society we aren't interested in anything Ndi igbos must stay in their lane leave us Alone we don't care about u igbos get it straight to your head All Ndi igbos pls
The rail project plan sounds very interesting. It will really help the state develope. Other states need to start looking at projects that make their states economically viable to attract investment
Lagos is actually working
This is nice. I hope they maintain it. I also hope passengers don't mess it up as well.
Maintenance is very important
you are all deceived and brainwashed people ,, living in suffering and anguished have made you forget who you are and where you suppose to have been now,
Amazing!!! I leave in ajegule very close 2 mile2 station good 1 Lagos state
God bless. Spiritual sanity shall be restored on public roads.Financil and valuables shall be secured.
Amazing
This report was detailed and very informative, thats how it should be. 👍👍
Also very simple and concise.
Lois 💥💥❤️
This was why Ambode got kicked out. Abandoning this project was a major error for him. This was even when the power of concession which was politically withheld shifted to the APC.
We should be celebrating this in 2019.He abandoned ut for 4yrs...yet to those mischievous people that didn't even vote for him in 2015,he is the best thing since he had issues with BAT
#This is a great move to develop transport system in Lagos
Congratulations
Nice to see, nice to have.
Well done
Well done. If the nation keeps moving in this direction things will be better for everyone
Lagos is truly working , Please do not disturb
Hope they keep it clean …. And safe
Fantastic
Bravo naija..from kenya
Kudos to Lagos 👏👏
Nice one!
This is beautiful, the sad thing is " we lack maintenance culture in Nigeria 🇳🇬
Ibo man with negative spirit .. tell south east gov to do same in rivers state , ABia etc them advise your bros in the north to do same in Kano and kaduna and use your hood maintenance culture to sustain it
Always be positive bro
Leave us Alone we don't need.your Advice we are more than inexpensive like u south East criticize your leaders to fix your region Advice your brothers simple fact
I love this💕💕💕
God bless lagos
A GREAT LEAP OF SUCCESS FOR ALL NIGERIANS.
What a great project! This will definitely serve as part of measures to alleviate the sufferings of Lagos residents and Nigerians as one. My fear is,can this infrastructure be maintained, at least,to stand the test of of time?
How expensive or cheap is the fare.Many Congrats.Lagosians deserve this
My view is, if their are saving people 24/7 Efficiently. Give them the critics their deserve. Checking the daily Service quality. Cheers
This is a good thing. Congratulations to the Lagos state government and all involved.
Pls declare how many services?it must run almost 24 hrs barring a few hours for maintenance.godbless
Good development. Baby steps. We still have a long way to go.
Lagos island commuters would be very happy
So I’m confused how is it powered at the moment I don’t see any overhead wire or third rail ?
Congratulations Nigeria 🇳🇬🇧🇩
What's needed at the major stations are first class mega parking stations so that ppl can park thier vehicles take a train ride to thier destinations nd come back pick thier vehicles back home
Their is car park for sure
Like in San Francisco
I would agree with you, but honestly i just can’t. Lagos needs LESS cars on the road, so why the heck should they build large parking lots that will encourage people to drive?
The main goal should be to ELIMINATE the usage of cars altogether in Lagos. You don’t need to drive in beautiful cities like London or Tokyo due to their amazing transport. If Lagos provided more options besides driving (more BRT lines and keep expanding the metro) then there wouldn’t even be a need for these parking spaces you’re on about
@@GenericUrbanism American cities should NOT be an inspiration for Nigeria to follow… Nigeria should be taking inspiration from Asian and European cities
@@bababababababa6124 absolutely, the United States is an example of what not to do.
Good job to the Government's workers, the good civil workers that love their country. Thank to the Governor of Lagos.
This is welcome development
Nigeria with all its huge oil baked economy and big potential or productive population! It deserves more than this! If its government works hard with accountability and transparency it can achieve a lot of major national projects! In future.
The last interview the governor did, he mentioned that the fare will be around N200. I hope he keep to the promised. Thanks sanwo-Olu, how I wish this was completed when baba kekere (Chief Jakande) was alive.
It is advisable that 40% shares should be allowed by the contracting firm that built it to enable smooth operation and maintenance.
25 percent will be enough while 15 % will be state tax and the rest will be for more rail line construction and availability of coaches and constant electric power for it to function.
Wow, Nigeria on the Rise, thanks Very Much to the Chinese.
That Blue Line Makes Lagos look so beautiful because the Ride is Quite High above the Ground Level.
More Wins
nice development, but i hope it will not be a dumping sites as we see BRT Now, lets it be clean. Lagos cleanliness is key and maintenance too.
Thank you sir babajedi olushloa sawu olu for providing transmission free to Nigeria people in Lagos State 🎉🎉🇳🇬🇲🇲🇲🇲🇲🇲🇲🇲🇲🇲🇳🇿🇵🇷
very beautiful and confortable than many trains in Europe.
My first worries is security.
Security must be very strict, please
There should be barrier protection so people dont jump onto the tracks by incident or suicide.
This is great!! Congratulations to Lagos state government and citizens.
thank God Almighty Amen♥️💜💙👨✈️👨✈️👨✈️
Congratulations to all Nigerians especially Lagosians. More importantly Awa omo Oduduwa. Eko Akete.
Right amount of fare to be taking to cover maintenance and workers salaries and generate profit as well . And when funds proparely utilize will bring sustain the operations .
This is what Africans needs to learn to progress
Kudos to lagosian
More Money needs to be pumped into this
and the construction needs to go on faster than this
The benifits of having and building a good Transport infrastructure would be
Increased job opportunities (Train driver, Security Engineer and many more)
Easier transport troughout the city allowing faster connection to work school and more
Relieving of Lagos streets
This is very good. I hope other countries on the continent get inspired to do the same.
Lagos is the last in big cities in Africa to be fully railroad
Hahaha
I love the idea but where is the escalator? They must consider the elders and the physically disabled. You must have an escalator in any train station around the world to be an international standard.
"solely powered by electrcitiy" despite the fact there are not wires or thrid rail and you can see a diesel locomotive pushing the train at 0:34. But it is better than having no train to ride at all!
They do have a third rail, but its not working right now. Maybe teething troubles.
More progress lagos
Let's see how long until you can't use it anymore because lack of maintenence on the train, tracks, gates, ticket machines and whatever else is necessary. These things need very very frequent maintenance. If possible daily
I am very grateful but maintenance matters.
at the sound of the word ,, "electricity" 🤣
I don't see a third rail or an overhead centenary lines.
Maintenance is needed to get it work well
Nigerians are not good in this area, so I don't know if this will be different..nice job though.
it is in lagos, dont worry it will be well maintained
I'm not seeing any escalators though. Climbing the stairs would be difficult for people, especially the elderly and pregnant women.
Really!!! I bet you're just mocking about. In 2022, you think they would spend all that dollars without escalators and lifts. Oshodi bus terminal have lifts. All the Federal government train stations from Lagos to Ibadan have lifts and escalators. Abuja light rail that was constructed 6yrs have both too. Lagos State water transport LASWA have lifts. Some comments are just ignorant.
@@FERESE He said he can't see any, I can't see any either, it's not ignorance just observation. Steps are obviously needed to ease movement as escalators would slow down crowds in certain areas. But I'm sure there are still escalators in some areas.
@@FERESEAlways criticizing go back home to criticize your home land leaders leave us Alone we are fine Advice yourself failures
@@sulaimonoladipoakanni1074 Hello, i guess you replied the wrong person. I stated facts.
@@FERESE am so sorry about that stay bless
Good initiative, kudos to the project initiators. My big concern is the electrification on the rail lines. In developed countries where such projects are initiated, the electrification rails will be in a covered space or tunnel, where no one will have any direct access to, or flood. For Lagos, the engineers should have opted for an overhead electrification system. The danger in this rail electrification system will be flood, if there is any flood around the rails with 750V, that will be a massive electrocution. BE WARNED!!!
overhead elec
trification is more bulky,more expensive both in cost and maintenance
Well written Seun. It looks like you read my mind before you wrote this. Nigerians get excited easily without thinking about the future, safety and also maintenance.
Well I'm sure they can switch it off during flooding. Whether overhead or not it shouldn't make a difference during flooding. I don't understand why you made that distinction.
Rail has a good drainage system even in Dubai part of it are not under ground , part are over head and all other parts has cross over bridge....the most important is to redesign motor road around railroad in line with safety
When Nigeria develops Africa develops ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
The way that Akingbade guy murdered the name of the stations on the train route, Agbado, Oyingbo...! It's written all over you that you are a Yoruba man. Haba😯
Oya make u una show us Obi precedence??
Good luck for Lagos state governor hope others will eliminate but here in north east no any sign of rail project as president Buhari promise during campaing
It's great nd a giant step in the mordernisation of Lagos. Hope citizens will exercise discipline in environmental matters to further enhance the beauty of the city.t
connect the entire country with railway
This is great. I never though it would get this far based on the history of corruption in Nigeria. Has the Nigerian government spoken about the impact this will have on bus drivers and their assistants with the loss of income?
The whole danfo driver and conductor thing came out of allowing a bad habit to be crassly ingrained in Lagos!
With these guys , came the additional baggage of Agberos and Area boys who became leeches and parasites and menaces to society!!
Security: please put soldiers at every station and on the train.
Where is the electricity ontop of it?
Do your research.
It's not overhead wired like some countries. It's on the track
Dear citizens of Nigeria, If you're seeing all these developments in Lagos & you're still not thinking of voting for Tinubu... I don't know what you're waiting for.
I beg you i the name of God... before you vote for Peter Obi, please go and spend one week in Anambra state..... It's basically a no-go area.
Please dear Nigerian youths, do not make the mistake of your lives.
Most of the development in all the states in nigeria, especially in lagos will be accelerated if Tinubu becomes president!!!
Imagine having a Lagosian as the president... Everyone residing in Lagos will become super wealthy...
You should all be excited.
Nigeria has never ever had an educated president who was raised in the city....
All Nigeria's past presidents have been villagers. Time to elect a city boy for a change.
Dear Yorubas... For so long you have carried Nigeria on your shoulders. You have always been at the forefront of Charity, industries, Technology, Entertainment, Education & Politics... right from independence. The greatest humans in the history of Nigeria have been the Yorubas, ranging from the likes of: Herbert Macaulay, Wole Soyinka, Fela, MKO Abiola, Mike Adenuga, & Femi Otedola, to the likes of Wizkid, Davido, Olamide, Tiwa Savage, Asake, Anthony Joshua, Israel Adesanya, Kizz Daniel, & millions of other Yorubas who are doing Nigeria proud globally. The Yorubas have always been at the forefront of peace, unity & prosperity... The Yoruba region has been the only region in the country that have never ever formed any terrorist organization or any militant group.
Give the Yorubas the opportunity to uplift Nigeria through the Aso Rock. Vote Tinubu... Vote The Yoruba Race.
@The Travlogger. Please go away. This is not a time for tribal sentiments.
please truly grow for once in your life and stop being such a short sighted tribalist. your mindset will never help you or the people around you.
Lagos was a former capital city of Nigeria so it will be unfair to compare it with Anambra please.
@@femiakande652 when the capital was moved to Abuja 31yrs ago, every single resources and major assets were stripped from Lagos. Lagos was milked dry by the military government in order to fund the Abuja urban design. Tinubu had to work extremely hard to bring Lagos back on its feet. Before Tinubu became governor, all the wealthy individuals & major business had relocated to Abuja, but they all returned within the first 4years of Tinubu's administration.
@@femiakande652 Fine, then compare Anambra to states like Akwa ibom and you would realize obi is just a noise maker
Thank you China , I hope is managed well.
Extend the train to other states too. Not just lagos
Na only corporate officers dey enter agboro no go stop us on the way 😂😂
.... whatever that means
NURTW... i hope they do not frustrate this project
How much does it cost?
hundreds of billions of dollars i guess
@@doc.georgeandersonjr539 Get some perspective dude. Entire Indian Railways spending this year is $63 Billion. That is the fastest transforming and fourth largest Railway system in the world.
"Hundreds of billions of dollars" is enough to fund the spending of governments of much larger nations for an entire year (Central Government of India spending this year is $550 Billion, not including State Government spending).
This project would likely be somewhere around $1 Billion to $2 Billion.
It's great to see that Lagos has a rail line, it's a vast city with lots of traffic and it wouldn't have to wait any longer for this to happen. But honestly, my heart is divided because I am just tired of seeing Chinese flags hanging everywhere in our countries. If it is a win-win partnership, why is it that their flags have to be hanging everywhere as we were in China? Is that how they do in any single country where they build something or is it just in Africa? It seems to bother no one but this is like neocolonialism because when your flag flies somewhere that's when the territory belongs to you. Just wondering if the money they got from the project itself isn't enough as they have to hang their flags and write mandarin everywhere even though not even 1% of the locals understand it.
After hearing that BAT has been declared president-elect, I came here to console myself that maybe he will do for Nigeria what him and his governors did for Lagos. Time will tell.
Alhaji Jakande was set to deliver this project 38yrs earlier.
Tinunbu given the chance for train transportation to happen in lagos.
Chuku vote 🗳 for tinunbu, train 🚆 transportation will circulate the whole Nigeria 🇳🇬 , ....
When is Alhaji Ojukwu and Pandora Obi going to deliver in Anambra
@@okangba1 an intelligent question would've been why wasn't it delivered 38yrs after Alhaji Jakande had paid for it? Perhaps you would've gotten some education instead of being a FOOL.
@@musiliulawal Ogbeni, there's nobody called Tinunbu! Get your spelling right for a start.
@IZUCHUKWU EZUKANMA Perhaps the more intelligent questions would have been why is South East region not embracing rails? Why are South East Indigenes not holding their governors accountable? Why are South East people migrating to other regions and not contributing to their regions. It would be difficult for a fool like you to decipher those questions
It looks hot and humid there. 😅
It's a Tropical country after all something that shouldn't come as a surprise if you listened in class
@@lizlovesafrobeats thanks so much you are lovely. I was sick that day.
Will this remain this way 2,3,4 years from now? Or will it be an over-crowded mess
Until then. For now congratulations to them
Obi igbo vote 🗳 for tinunbu, ....
Na make them keep am clean
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Another China's "one belt one route" project. Congratulations to Lagos people and the Chinese company which bult it!