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Indonesia really made the wrong decision going with Chinese funding & route alignment for their HSR. The main reason they picked China over Japan was the lack of govt loan guarantee, now China is asking for the the loan guarantee they tried to avoid. Jokowi really fumbled here.
As the costs of the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway construction balloons, Indonesian senior minister Luhut reveals China insists Indonesia's national budget as debt collateral.
He also says China is willing to lower interest from 4% to 3.4%, while Indonesia asks for 2%.
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Just as Elon Musk is trying to rewrite history that he was a cofounder at Tesla despite only becoming CEO in2008 of a Co. that was founded in 2003. Today, a lot of the Tesla fandom know very little of Martin Eberhard & Marc Tarpenning.
Because of documentation, children are still taught in school that Thomas Edison "invented the lightbulb."
He did no such thing, but he had enough money and influence to convince the world that he did, despite losing the patent infringement case filed by the real inventor.
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A tale of two rapid transit systems
Left - Singapore (5.9m Pop)
System length - 230km
Daily ridership - 3.4 million (2019)
14.8k avg riders/km
Right - Kuala Lumpur (8.9m Pop)
System length - 223km
Daily ridership - 800k (2024)
3.6k avg riders/km
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Shin-Yokohama Station 1964 vs 2021 Amazing transformation.
How it started How it's going
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Two worlds separated by a canal.
On the left, Apapa, Tightly packed housing with barely any streets.
On the right, Apapa G.R.A. spacious, luscious gardens and pools.
The rich folks on the right sure do not want a bridge across the canal, but they so want that cheap labor.
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@DiegoBeghin
The Japanese route involved more tunneling and had more centrally located stations, while the Chinese routing had more elevated sections with the usual far away stations. The Chinese loan had a much higher interest rate, but lower initial capital investment.
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What's up with the Nigerian practice of towing EMUs with diesel locomotives on metro projects?
A 🧵
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Atlanta has one of the best transit systems in the US.
Fully automated trains running 24/7
108sec headways (33tph)
250k avg daily riders on just 4.5km
56k riders/km, even higher than the 14k riders/km achieved by NYC subway carrying 5.7m daily riders on 399km.
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Since the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline started construction in June 2020, many have asked an important question.
Why not generate electricity with the gas in the Niger Delta and transmit it to Kano?
In this 🧵, I'll try to answer this question.
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Lagos-Onitsha-Port Harcourt Railway
This is the most critical transport infrastructure to build in Nigeria, but Nigeria is not building it, instead it's focusing on other less productive priorities.
@AbeMarvellous
@DavidHundeyin
@GazetteNGR
Computing passenger traffic based on populations along a line using a gravity model, the possible rail routes are ranked below. The higher the line density, the greater the economic viability of the line. But Nigeria started with
#12
,
#15
, and
#13
. Though
#2
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Only 3 of Nigeria's 22 federally operated airports are profitable, Lagos, Abuja, & PHC.
FAAN has to cross-subsidize the unviable state & federal airports with funds from the 3 profitable ones. Yet states keep building new airports they can't afford.
Only Three Of Nigeria’s 22 Airports Profitable, Others Subsidised — FAAN MD
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Lagos at 2m sea level rise.
Most of VI, Lagos Island, Lekki Phase 2, Ijora, Ajegunnle, Iganmu all under water.
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Leave it to the Nigerian Railway Corporation to spend $1.6 billion on a double track railway between what is the busiest passenger traffic corridor on the African continent only to run 2 daily trains instead of the 16 daily trains minimum they promised.
Lagos - Ibadan departure time (Morning & Evening)
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Lagos is starting the blue line operations hauling the EMUs with diesel locomotives. This explains why the avg speed is 26kph vs 40kph if it were EMU powered.
The 3rd rail is installed, but it looks like either the IPP is not completed or they haven't finalized the gas supply.
Bienvenue: The Blue Line started passenger operations today. History. Vision. Resilience. Confidence. That’s the spirit of Lagos. Welcome onboard.
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East Asia has mastered the art of compact multilevel warehouses. These are common in Japan, Taiwan, HK, Singapore, Korea, & gaining popularity in China.
The examples below are all from Osaka region showing several 5 story warehouses.
It always blows my mind that the world's busiest freight airport is Hong Kong Int' and it achieves that by using a few vertical 5-12 story warehouses (pic 1). While surpassing the volumes of the sprawling UPS Worldport in Louisville (pic 2) and FedEx Superhub in Memphis (pic 3).
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Reminder that Lagos built the 70 million gallon / 265,000 m3 daily Adiyan waterworks, but refused to build a pipeline network.
Instead they're waiting on a PPP partner to build the water distribution network.
A country under one of the most intense sanction in the world.
Nigeria with lots of fresh water source can not provide pipeborne water to 10% of it's population.
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Today, February 29 2024, the 24.5km Lagos Red line is being commissioned. It will join the 12km Lagos Blue line, which opened in Sept 2023 as the second rail rapid transit line in the city bringing the total system length to 36.5km.
Lagos, we are ready.
Today marks a monumental day as we commission the LMRT Red Line, a 37 km rail line integrating key bus terminals at Oyingbo, Yaba, Oshodi, Ikeja, and Iju. This is more than just a project; it's a generational leap for our city.
The LMRT Red Line isn't
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The Japanese initial price was $700m higher, $6.2bn vs $5.5bn for the Chinese loan, but with much lower interest rate at just 0.1%/yr vs the 2%-3.4%/yr of the Chinese loan.
@DiegoBeghin
The Japanese route involved more tunneling and had more centrally located stations, while the Chinese routing had more elevated sections with the usual far away stations. The Chinese loan had a much higher interest rate, but lower initial capital investment.
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Singapore has taken a approach that restricts car use and plans urban developments around MRT corridors, while KL has been on an urban highway building binge since the 90s and an abundance of uncoordinated urban development that encourages driving.
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Elon is a master of media manipulation and has curated the story of Tesla with his image deeply fused into it. It's no surprise that Elon's actions are reminiscent of Edison who was also a master of media and storytelling of his era.
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This is the Suzhou Dushu Lake Tunnel. 7.37km bridge + tunnel project with a 3.46km in tunnel.
独墅湖隧道/2363324
Engineering like this would solve the Landmark Beach problem but Innovation is alien to us.
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South Africa has the largest amount of migrants in Africa with Mozambique being the largest source at 462k followed by Zimbabwe (358k), then Lesotho (310k), but the biggest surprise is the UK at
#4
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This is another wasteful rail project being executed in Nigeria.
Why waste money refurbishing the Narrow gauge corridor between PHC & Aba when it will have to be ripped up again once Nigeria gets serious?
New year, new progress! The track laying from Port Harcourt to Aba on the Nigeria Eastern Narrow-Gauge Railway project has been completed by
#CCECC
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It appears the cost issue of the Kenya SGR is now in the news again.
Wanjigi claims that their initial costing put the project at Ksh 55 billion / $550m for 925km. That's $595k/km unit cost.
This is a thread on why this is absolutely false.
From Jimi Wanjigi;
The SGR project in Kenya, originally planned as a privately funded venture costing KSh 55 billion, transformed into a government project under President Uhuru, costing KSh 500 billion for the Mombasa-Naivasha section.
However, audits revealed that KSh 644
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Folks, please avoid deploying BRT on a corridor that requires the capacity of rail. Otherwise, you'll end up with a BRT grid lock.
Jakarta ought to find a better way to handle bus overcrowding.
Maybe it's time for two-lane bus lane.
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For those who are still wedded to the misguided idea that ports generating economic activity instead of ports going where it already exists, let's take a look at the history of the Lagos port complex.
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Let's get some things about Chongqing cleared up.
First, this interchange is out of context. It's the Huangjuewan Junction & is the only one in the city linking 5 highways with high density development all around except the east where it's obstructed by the large hill.
Chongqing is the "largest" city in the world because they define the city limits to be 64 times the size of Los Angeles. Most of the "city" is a gigantic sprawl. Here is a picture of a highway interchange in Chongqing:
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This is a very good use of public transit infrastructure and should be emulated everywhere.
Though, I know this will not be allowed in a country that likes to segregate classes. I won't mention names, but metro for the rich, locals for poor.
Farmers take the subway to sell vegetables in the city.
Chongqing, the first subway train in the morning.
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@the_transit_guy
@JRUrbaneNetwork
Add Tokyo metro Tozai line.
Left Image
Construction of the Tozai line extension from Toyocho to Nishi-Funabashi in 1968. The line opened in 1969.
Right image
Tozai line today.
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How to waste a valuable waterfront. Lagos Marina edition.
@andrewfootie
@ompsyram
Instead of Lagos developing its Marina, it's using it as an unsightly dock for rusting vessels.
The lack of vision for developing high-quality public spaces is a massive problem with Nigerian state administrators.
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With Ksh 18.7 billion (US$129m) annual revenue for 2022/2023 yr, the Kenya SGR is still showing that it is the only well executed recent rail project in Africa.
Of the 3 major operational rail projects in Africa opened in the following years,
Ethiopia - Djibouti railway - 2015 - 756km
Abuja - Kaduna railway - 2016 - 186km
Nairobi - Mombasa - 2017 - 487km
The Kenyan one is the most viable, yet it is in a dangerous financial situation.
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The Japanese alignment of was also far superior with closer to city center stations and better integration with metro and regional rail.
@SGamarad
@DiegoBeghin
On a technical level, the Japanese routing served the cities better with a more centrally located station at the Jakarta end. Stations also had better integration with the MRT & KRL Commuter line. Compare the locations of the Dukuh Atas Station vs the Chinese Halim station.
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1st off, no $3.5bn loan has been secured for this port.
Second, no financial institution is going to put up that amount of money for a project with such low viability.
Long story short :- Cross River has a port - Calabar port but it seldomly receives vessel. Beyond the fact that it is old, one major problem is the draft length measuring about 5meters - 7meters.
To continuously dredge it, it will cost the government over $300 million. One
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A private city is not a solution to the ailments of African cities.
A city is far more complex organism and creating rich enclaves won't mean they escape the problems of the city they're fleeing as long as they still have to interface with it.
This is E’s latest startup, Itana, that he’s building within range of Lagos that will be a private city that can serve as a regulatory and tech hub for African startups.
Private cities have a huge future on the African continent and this was a good read.
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India rejecting BYD's $1 billion EV manufacturing investment will rank up there as one of the worst policy decisions in manufacturing history.
Terrible policy decision! India says No to a manufacturing plant & $1 billion investment by Chinese electric car giant BYD.
Bad for technology, bad for jobs, bad for Indian economy, and bad for foreign policy.
The China-hatred is beyond irrational.🙄
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Deep Natural harbors only mattered in the 19th century when we didn't have the tech to engineer deep shipping berths.
If it was so important, how come all the busiest ports in China except Qingdao are located in silt filled river deltas?
India's geography means it can never be an efficient manufacturing economy.
India has some of the worst coastlines in the world.
Despite it's length, Indian coastlines have few to no natural deep water harbors.
This increases the cost of transport for things made in India
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We need way more bridges across the Lagos lagoon.
Bro this is crazy, to get to Ikorodu from Lekki, you have to make this huge trip that can be shortened by a bridge
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The government was trying to avoid taking on risk, outsourcing it to the private sector, and in the end the Indonesian tax payer will be the ones paying for this costly mistake for generations.
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Over the 40yr term including interest payments, the Japanese loan would have been $2.4bn cheaper despite the slightly higher principal.
@DiegoBeghin
@SGamarad
He got what he wanted, but the despite the lower price of the Chinese bid, that $5.5bn becomes $8.8billion including interest payments after the 40yr term, while JICA's $6.2bn becomes only $6.4bn after 40yrs. So Indonesia will end up paying $2.4bn more over the loan term.
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The Lagos Blue line starts operating with EMUs today 16th Oct 2023. IMHO, I consider this the official start date & not the prior diesel loco charade.
This provides some opportunity for comparison with other new metro lines open in other developing cities.
A view of our Lagos
Passengers on board already enjoying our upgraded electricity propelled Blue Line train service - faster, more convenient and reliable.
A greater Lagos is indeed rising !
#lamata
#keepingLagosMoving
#railelectrification
#lasg
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A few things
@MetroLagos
needs to do to make the most the the Lagos blue line once it goes into operation next year.
1. Get additional rolling stock ASAP even before starting construction of Phase 2.
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India's manufacturing lag has nothing to do with geography but bad policies & politics.
We can't still be regurgitating this geography crap.
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Indonesia just received its first fleet of 12 HSR trains for the Jakarta-Bandung HSR.
IT’S OFFICIALLY WRAPPED!
Sebanyak 12 Rangkaian Kereta Api Cepat Jakarta Bandung sudah selesai diproduksi dan hari ini, secara resmi dikirimkan ke Indonesia.
Kereta api cepat seri KCIC400AF sudah didesain agar bisa beroperasi sesuai dengan kondisi geologis di Indonesia.
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Like I've stated multiple times, most of the recent flooding issues in Africa are due to the lack of infrastructure and not climate change.
You just know there are 8 or 9 "Climate NGOs" with Africa offices in Nairobi currently falling over themselves to offer $1,000 grants to some stupid Nigerian journalists to report the flooding in Maiduguri as "climate change," tying in an argument against Africa using its own
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@the_transit_guy
The fact that New York subway is old does not mean the stations have to look like they're falling apart.
@Kdenkss
This is Ueno Station on Tokyo's oldest metro line built in 1927. Pics 1 & 2 are from 2015 before the recent renewal. Pics 3 & 4 are from 2020 after renewal. The old tunnels were rebuilt and stations remodeled. The sad part is the old station looked better than most in NYC.
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Instead of going with the much Japanese recommendation of using the shorter and easier to build flatter terrain of the northern alignment to reach Surabaya.
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@SGamarad
@DiegoBeghin
On a technical level, the Japanese routing served the cities better with a more centrally located station at the Jakarta end. Stations also had better integration with the MRT & KRL Commuter line. Compare the locations of the Dukuh Atas Station vs the Chinese Halim station.
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Land reclamation within Tokyo bay is insane.
The entire bay has almost been filled in with artificial islands.
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Malaysia spent decades trying to prop up domestic demand for Proton cars, the state owned automaker, so car infrastructure was incentivized.
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@Kdenkss
This is Ueno Station on Tokyo's oldest metro line built in 1927. Pics 1 & 2 are from 2015 before the recent renewal. Pics 3 & 4 are from 2020 after renewal. The old tunnels were rebuilt and stations remodeled. The sad part is the old station looked better than most in NYC.
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For SE Nigeria this is what the rail network should look like. The alignments fit into a national network, but if the states have the will, they can build the sections that run within their state boundaries.
Ndigbo what are we doing the Railway system oo…
The first project of the SEDC is to build a SEastern n DELTA N RIVERS Interstate connected RailLine with modern trains
@TanqThink
@ifeora90
@VitaYoung11
@blackgoldIfy
@chukatweet
@NdokiHeritage
@The__Vyrus
Weytin una think
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The other poor decision, likely politically motivated was Indonesia's insistence on the southern alignment going through much lower population centers and more difficult terrain for extensions to Surabaya, Indonesia's
#2
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Despite both systems being of similar length, Singapore's MRT has 4X the ridership of Rapid KL's system.
KL's system is also about to get even longer as the 38km Shah Alam line is scheduled to open this year.
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Another day, another cheerleading for a new deep sea port to act as a transshipment hub in the South South.
This is a misguided understanding on how ports work. New ports don't bring new economic activity, they go where the activity already exists.
See what Akwa Ibom State is sitting on.
—A deep sea port that can be used as a transshipment hub and can also provide bunkering services for vessels (especially in this period when vessels are diverting from the Red Sea through SA, and they can barely find bunkering terminals
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Lagos is so shameless. Instead of installing the 3rd rail electrification so the EMUs can power themselves on the track, they are proceeding with "testing" by hauling the EMUs with a locomotive.
Finish the necessary infrastructure, then do tests, not this haphazard mess.
Lagos is Working. I just recorded this now at Marina and believe this can be replicated in, at least, one location across all six geopolitical zones to start with. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has the blueprint. He knows the way and has proven track record to back this up.
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This just illustrates that aggressively building metro systems while simultaneously building more car infra and no car restrictions will result in a woefully underperforming system.
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This is a cautionary tale of the dangers of govt outsourcing risk or trying to avoid it. It only results in higher costs.
All this could have been avoided and Indonesia would have had a much cheaper and better integrated HSR network.
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@FIXadedoyin
Good for him. The fact still remains that Elon was not a co-founder. He only came into the picture a year later as an investor, becoming CEO 4yrs later. There's no denying that his ability to raise funds kept Tesla afloat, but a co-founder, he's not.
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@AbeMarvellous
@DavidHundeyin
@GazetteNGR
Computing passenger traffic based on populations along a line using a gravity model, the possible rail routes are ranked below. The higher the line density, the greater the economic viability of the line. But Nigeria started with
#12
,
#15
, and
#13
. Though
#2
is almost completed.
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Too bad this impressive driverless transit running since 1980 only serves the ATL airport, the world's busiest, not the actual city of Atlanta.
This rapid transit system is non other than the
Atlanta Plane Train.
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Instead of clamouring for new deep sea ports, the E & SS states should be working together to strengthen the transport links to Onne Port.
This proposed freight rail corridor is 254km long from Onne port to Onitsha with 4 ICDs at Aba, Owerri, & Onitsha.
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Lagos Metro Dream Map.
This is a vision of what a metro for Lagos would could look like. Still working on the labelling.
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Just came across this Japanese blog that gives a serious critique against the SC Maglev Chuo Shinkansen calling it "an ego trip" for JR Central.
I'll summarize the points made in this thread.
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I couldn't watch this Wendover video without writing a critique on it.
This is what happens when mainstream or popular platforms jump on a topic that's outside their breadth and make critically false conclusions on why a problems exists.
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Due to the poor station access due to far out of city center stations, on the Bandung end, you'll spend 30mins on the HSR, but then spend 36mins on the final 15km to reach central Bandung.
@DiegoBeghin
@SGamarad
oops. It's actually 36mins to central Bandung. You'll spend ~30mins on HSR to Walini HSR station, then transfer to Padalarang station and then ride the local train for 36min to reach the center. If you chose the taxi or bus option, then it's even slower taking ~50mins
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Poor execution aside, one thing Lagos did right was pick a high demand corridor for their first metro line. There is so much latent demand on the Blue line corridor.
A much better route choice than the middle of nowhere route chosen in the capital city, Abuja.
The crowd tonight at the Marina Train Station of the Lagos Blue Line Rail for the 7:36pm trip to Mile-2.
#LagosBlueLine
#BlueLineRail
#GreaterLagosRising
#CCECC
#LAMATA
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This provide a perfect example that just building rail rapid transit infrastructure alone guarantees system ridership.
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Today I found out that the largest construction company in Nigeria by revenue is Ratcon Construction based in Ibadan with a revenue of $1.3bn. A company I had never heard of until today.
Julius Berger is only
#4
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Unfortunately, many Indian cities are following in Malaysia's footsteps. They're building metro systems rapidly, but also building multiple urban highways while doing nothing to restrict car use and their relatively low system ridership reflects that.
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Today Dec 21st 2022, Lagos State is celebrating the infrastructure completion on the 13km Lagos Blue line Phase 1. They plan to begin testing between now & the Q1 of 2023 when the line will fully open for operations.
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A Lagos Red line train stationed at the Ebute Meta station. According to
@Lamataonline
the Red line would be ready by the end of 2023 with operations starting in 2024.
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How not to build rapid transit stations.
Abuja edition
1. Don't site stations in the middle of nowhere
2. When urban transit stations are next to intercity stations, make the walk connections as short as possible.
Idu station
Red - Intercity
Purple - Urban transit
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This is just sad. India, like Nigeria, has a propensity for sycophants. The Mumbai coastal road is a terrible project that provides no benefit other than allow a select few to have a bypass to the detriment of the rest of the city.
Deleted my post about the Coastal Road Project, as I genuinely don't feel like receiving any more death threats. I'm going to take the next few days off from this site. Happy Labor Day, friends.
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Imagine China hiring some consulting group to prepare their 5yr plans, which are currently done by the state.
India does not need BCG to prepare their roadmaps. Please do better.
The govt has hired Boston Consulting Group (
#BCG
) to help prepare the
#Vision2047
document that will set India’s medium-term goals and priorities for becoming a developed economy in the next quarter of a century.
(
@Firstday75
reports)
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African governments will always find new ways to further entrench their citizens in poverty.
Lagos is mandating permits for renovations when they can't handle issuing permits for new buildings.
Lagos law: Builders must obtain permits for all renovations to existing structures, including replacing floor tiles -
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I didn't know that this was possible, but Herrenknecht, the TBM specialist, has developed a tunnel widening system (TES) to enable old railway lines to be electrified.
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Banning Danfos will only make life harder for many Lagosians as ramping up BRT buses & new metro lines takes time.
Also, traffic is mostly caused by private cars, not Danfos.
Keep the Danfos, gradually introduce larger buses, then restrict private cars in congested areas.
If we can somehow ban public buses (Danfo) and we use just BRTs and Trains,
Traffic will drop drastically
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But what about cutting the property from the beach front?
Eko Atlantic Phase 2 is already planned to cut off Landmark beach from the Atlantic ocean making it no longer a beach front property, but a regular road front property.
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Lagos still displaying high level shamelessness. Instead of completing the blue line electrification, they were giving joy rides with diesel haul EMU, treating an important piece of infra as an amusement park ride.
Now they've resorted to humans pushing the EMU.
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This looks like the Yutong E11 (ZK6118BEVG) electric bus model.
With 350kWh battery, it should be able to achieve a range of 270km at 1.3kWh/km avg energy consumption.
So it can work on bus routes with 200-250km of daily distance travelled.
THREAD: Governor of Lagos State, Mr
@jidesanwoolu
and
@Oando_PLC
announced the arrival of the first set of electric buses in Lagos, plenty questions popped up. I went to the Lagos Bus Services Limited (
@Lbslng
) Office, Oshodi to explore the buses myself.
#LagosElectricBus
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@DiegoBeghin
@SGamarad
He got what he wanted, but the despite the lower price of the Chinese bid, that $5.5bn becomes $8.8billion including interest payments after the 40yr term, while JICA's $6.2bn becomes only $6.4bn after 40yrs. So Indonesia will end up paying $2.4bn more over the loan term.
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More recently, Kuala Lumpur has been expanding its rapid transit network at a rapid pace, but despite its size, driving is still the prefferred choice for many.
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If inland population concentration was so important, how come Germany became a manufacturing powerhouse despite its inland population concentration?
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The question is why would you want to go for this ultra expensive solution?
The problem of land scarcity that led to these reclaimed land airports in Japan don't exist in Lagos.
Lagos should move the airport to the middle of the lagoon, and connect highways to all corners of the state.
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This is basically the rail corridor with the highest utilization potential in Nigeria. Lagos to PHC via Onitsha connects the population & economic hubs of the south.
At $10-$12m/km for 160km/h operation, it would cost btwn $6.7bn & $8bn for the entire 672km alignment.
If I was given $1.5bn and told to change the course of Nigerian history with it, 1st thing is fund construction of (privately operated) double track standard gauge railway line linking Port Harcourt to Lagos via Aba.
2nd thing is a $300m municipal infrastructure program for Aba.
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East and Southern African countries have a much better quality of life compared to their West African counterparts, which makes them easier to settle in coming from the West.
Ghana & Nigeria have huge structural issues, while the better Francophone countries are often ignored.
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It's laudable that Lagos is finally embarking on much needed bus network reform.
I would like to highlight some issues which I hope they are considering in their implementation.
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RE: LAGOS TO BAN DANFOS ON LEKKI-EPE CORRIDOR
I have received numerous calls and messages following the publication on various blogs and online news platforms regarding a ban on Danfos by Lagos State.
To clarify and prevent any misunderstandings, it is essential to highlight
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This is the Agege train station interchange between the Lagos-Ibadan intercity railway and the Lagos Red line commuter rail.
The Red line has separate station building and platforms from the intercity line. This poses 3 issues.
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Ajaokuta, the perenial money pit
Let's look at where large steel plants are sited globally.
Port Talbot Steelworks, UK
Egyptian Steel, Egypt
Baosteel, Shanghai, China
POSCO, South Korea
Always close to a sea port.
Ajaokuta was sited far away from the sea.
An entire civilisation of people who believe that steel and concrete is a seed that you plant in the middle of the bush and harvest economic growth out of thin air.
Like Ajaokuta, like Tinapa, like Abakaliki airport, like Kano-Maradi railway, abbl.
Slow thinkers.
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I know it is a common narrative that China never mastered the internal combustion engine, but this couldn't be farther from reality.
For decades Germany and Japan have jostled for position as the world’s leading car exporter. But their dominance is coming to an end
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Another comparison is between KL & Tehran
Kuala Lumpur (8.9m Pop)
System length - 223km
Daily ridership - 800k (2024)
3.6k avg riders/km
Tehran (15.8m Pop)
System length - 292km
Daily ridership - 2.5m(2019)
8.6k avg riders/km
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Claiming 583k pax in a single day, when in reality it was 583k pax in 122 days, avg of 4.8k riders / day.
How can it be the largest intra-city rail in Africa?
Cairo Metro - 3.6m/day
Algiers Metro - 200k/day
Dakar TER - 80k/day
Gautrain - 38k/day
Lagos Blue Line - 4.8k/day
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From the 2020 National Highway traffic report, 3MB has the highest average daily traffic (ADT) of all Nigerian roads by a significant margin.
1. 3MB - 133k
2. Abuja-Keffi Hwy - 93k
3. Lagos-Ibadan Hwy - 46k
4. Apapa-Oshodi - 46k
5. Lagos-Abeokta Hwy - 31k
6. Niger Bridge - 30k
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The entire 68km Lagos Green line is planned to have only 10 stations according to the official masterplan.
If they stick to the plan and don't add more stations, this will create a very unusable line.
Thanks to
@chriskost
for bringing this to my attention.
Based on the official low res LAMATA map ( I used to have a link to the high res version, but it no longer works), this is my best guess of what the Lagos green line alignment could look like.
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Nigeria is a country with lots of bad land use practices. One of them is prisons located within or near city center.
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Benin City Prison
Area - 9,000m2
Distance from central ring road - 400m
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I don't understand the Nigerian media & State govt's infatuation with making wild claims such as this.
This was posted on Jan 19 by
@Superfm963
claiming the Lagos Red Line as Africa's fastest train. Operating speed is what determines a train's speed claims, not the train itself.
The Lagos state Red Line is Africa’s fastest train at a speed of 330 km/hr and is getting closer to kicking off full operation.
Follow
@Superfm963
to stay updated on daily news✌️🌏
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If there is one thing that is always guaranteed, it's that Nigeria will always prioritize the wrong piece of infrastructure.
Sokoto-Badagry is a low priority corridor. This road project is in the same Whatsapp group as the low priority Kano-Maradi railway.
The Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, disclosed on Sunday that he had received a directive from the President for the prompt design of the Sokoto-Badagry Coastal Highway.
Mr. Umahi spoke following his examination of the Section one, phase one, of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal
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Building oversized stations while providing only 2 trains is not a game changer.
Lagos is repeating the mistakes of Abuja building these monstrosities as stations. The red line needed only simple platforms not ginormous head houses.
I just visited the Yaba station of the Lagos Red Line Railway which runs from Oyingbo to Agbado and I'm pleased with the progress made so far.
The station is at 75% completion while the vehicular flyover is at 85% completion.
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Unfortunately, this "parking lot in the CBD" phenomenon is the norm across most West African cities.
Lagos's CBD on Lagos Island has an entire strip of surface parking. The office spaces in Victoria Island also are surrounded by parking.
Genuinely wild that downtown Accra in the 2020s is a literal parking lot
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The "Bus is better than metro" school of thought in some corners of India is so short sighted and misses the entire point.
Buses and Metro are supposed to complement each other, they're not mutually exclusive.
Pune’s metro ridership is barely 50000 people a day.,
To give you a sense of context the Ramshackle system that passes for our bus service called PMPML ferries over 1.2 million people a day. That’s 12 lakh people in 1650 buses across 381 odd routes,
They doubled the frequency
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