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More info here:
http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/static/business/article2001339.html

15 year rail cars aren't so bad. They should have another 10-15 years life in them, and he (or more accurately, the concessionaire, I guess) can get them pretty cheap.

Seems like a pretty good way to go about it.

“You need a lot of patience,” says Peter Kieran, president and chief executive officer of CS. “We almost always get paid, but it’s often several years later. It’s not something a Canadian bank would easily understand.”

This is Africa

This has been highly controversial in places such as Mombasa, the biggest Kenyan port, where hundreds of dock workers have clashed with police in protests against the privatization this year. In Lagos, the transit project (and an accompanying expressway) has required the relocation of thousands of impoverished residents.

But the transit project could make a huge difference to the lives of ordinary Nigerians. The traffic chaos in Lagos is legendary. Commuters routinely wake up at 5 am for three-hour journeys to work, often using a series of different danfos – also known as “flying coffins” – the rickety mini-buses that are notoriously unsafe and reckless. People swap stories of six-hour traffic jams where motorists abandon their vehicles to drink tea at nearby shops.

The Lagos transport authority says the new transit system will be the “elixir” to solve this congestion. It estimates that 1.6 million engers will ride daily on the first two transit lines when they are completed. The trains will travel at speeds up to 100 kilometres an hour, running at five-minute intervals at peak hours.

tea?? beer more like!

More information on EkoRail the concessionaire

http://www.investec.co.uk/#home/lending_and_financing/project_and_infrastructure/Transport/transport_deals/ekorail_nigeria.html

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Updated pic

the green looks good, hope they tint the glasses/windows a bit

some stations should be complete by now. . . ?

NOT THIS AGAIN, ABEG UNA OOOOOO, UNTIL WE SEE AM! PLEASE LETS DROP THIS,

Is there anything that isn't green and white in Nigeria. All this forced patriotism.

^^ if dem paint am red now, you na go talk say na blood money avenue!!

i think its just rendering, but if there was a green line then it will fit in perfectly

ezeagu:

Is there anything that isn't green and white in Nigeria. All this forced patriotism.

A.Chigozie:

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what kind of nutjob?

I haven't read the whole thread, but I hope its not that Fashola wants to buy the TTC trains off the city of Toronto? Those train are dead. They are almsot always late in the mornings. TTC is planning to get rid of them and they have show cased the new trains.

Why do we always like to buy aloku?

One last thing, everyone I know here hates riding the TTC. Those trains are crap, look like crap and feel like crap.

They are about 20 years old if not more. City of Toronto and Province of Ontario have contracted Bombadier to get new trains.

They dont have lots of seats. The cars are not linked together and they are so ricketty, its unbelievable, They better reupholster them before Lagos gets them. Its winds me up just thinking of it!.

The trains are already on the way to Lagos.

The first of hundreds of Toronto subway cars that will furnish a new surface rail line in Lagos, Nigeria, has left Canada for the last time, and is now en route to Africa's largest city.

More details on
http://www.nigeriansreport.com/2011/09/eko-rails-trains-begin-journey-to-lagos.html

yodiyokun:

I haven't read the whole thread, but I hope its not that Fashola wants to buy the TTC trains off the city of Toronto? Those train are dead. They are almsot always late in the mornings. TTC is planning to get rid of them and they have show cased the new trains.

Why do we always like to buy aloku?

because we don't have the money to buy shiny new ones, Aloku can be refurbished and made to go the distant if well maintained
people still send used cars and laptops home and Airlines use pre-owned planes too
Good thing you didn't mention anything to do with safety, so they are safe, their being late is largely due to weather, tracks and driver themselves not the cars

We cant afford to be paying for trains for our lifetime when we can get the job done for half the price (half the time to deliver)

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The first of hundreds of Toronto subway cars that will furnish a new surface rail line in Lagos has left Canada. They are due shortly in Africa’s fastest growing megacity.

An indigenous company, Eko Rail, has concluded plans to purchase 255 of the Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) best-equipped subway cars for use in a long-anticipated Lagos Blue Line mass transit system. The TTC is in the process of purchasing larger “Rocket” trains to increase enger capacity on their lines.

As the electric-powered cars become surplus and are pulled offline in Toronto, they will be individually trucked to the United States for rebuilding by a team of world-class rail engineers. The cars will also undergo track-width (or “gauge”) conversion and interior refurbishment before being shipped to Lagos.

The trains have been inspected by the Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, who endorsed the plan to purchase them following his official visit to Toronto in May 2011.

“The shipment of the first car is an important step in Eko Rail’s efforts to the Governor’s transformation agenda for the city,” said David Potter, Eko Rail’s Chief Engineer.

“Ultimately, the Blue Line, with this modernised fleet, will bring massive benefits to Lagos’ economic development and improve Lagosians’ quality of life.”

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Thanks Orikinla and Dis Guy for the update.

I feel so overjoyed,


God bless the great state of Lagos.

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ekt_bear: @A.Chigozie:

I dunno. I don't know of any reputable Nigerian train companies. I guess Fashola could have encouraged someone to float one.

But do you really want to put the security and safety of those who will use the trains on somebody new?

While patronizing African businesses is a good thing, security and expertise comes first. After all, Fashola's constituency is not the African businessman, but the citizens of Lagos.

CHRISTOPHER ONYEBUCHI OSAJIE - UNCLE FASH YOU TOO MUCH, NA YOU BIKO

why must fash give the contract to afrikanas,the worst place i have seen,a place of darkness, a place a so call nigeria contractor can build a kilometer of brige under 10years

dayokanu:

Electricity we cant provide, Clean water we cant provide, Toothpick we cant manufacture Ordinary elections we couldnt conduct and you want us to build trains?

Liver go gree you enter made in Nigeria trains?

mogentle:


Is it compulsory to comment?
While some are still battling with zoning nonsense, a re-elected gov swung into action by checking a product to be procured for a world class project that your federal govt cannot think of & you think the best thing u can do is to critisize, the likes of GEJ fits your type 'cos you are a CHIEF PESSIMIST.

abeg bone dat guy him mouth de smell reach here slf

dayokanu:

Electricity we cant provide, Clean water we cant provide, Toothpick we cant manufacture Ordinary elections we couldnt conduct and you want us to build trains?

Liver go gree you enter made in Nigeria trains?

Boyyyy, you crack me up, electricity is a major factor and Government need to empower youths as well as building infrastructures.

Where are the trains?
Or did this turn out as another PR charade?

Yet, some desperadoes are doing their best to downplay GEJ's legit and commendable trains. Shameless people.
History will judge you.

Buttocks:
Where are the trains?
Or did this turn out as another PR charade?

Yet, some desperadoes are doing their best to downplay GEJ's legit and commendable trains. Shameless people.
History will judge you.

Go to Iganmu and see the extent of the project.

A bridge across the Lagoon is the next point of call.

Don't compare the light rail project to GEJ's rails that only require laying tracks on granite mounds or refurbishing existing tracks.

The light rail has large concrete footings for several kilometers, its a sight to behold.

Have the APC trains been delivered since 2011?


s, send this to front page. Lets talk about trains

FireFire, anonimi, Publisher, onisher, berem, barcanista, obiagelli, theV0ice(my good friend)
http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2011/05/15/in-pictures-fashola-inspects-trains-facilities-for-lagos-light-rail-in-canada/

agabaI23:
Have the APC trains been delivered since 2011?

s, send this to front page. Lets talk about trains

FireFire, anonimi, Publisher, onisher, berem, barcanista, obiagelli, theV0ice(my good friend)

Let us hope the Association of Pretending Crooks, APC will not tell us they made a BAD business decision for the train purchase just as they did for the Sunborn yacht floating hotel




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APC na orignal 419 people see as dem call FRAUD and SCAM plus CORRUPTION something very light- bad business

Lagos N8bn Sunborn Yacht deal, bad business — APC


More from: http://www.punchng.com/news/lagos-n8bn-sunborn-yacht-deal-bad-business-apc/

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[quote author=agabaI23 post=29896914]Have the APC trains been delivered since 2011?


s, send this to front page. Lets talk about trains

FireFire, anonimi, Publisher, onisher, berem, barcanista, obiagelli, theV0ice(my good friend)
http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2011/05/15/in-pictures-fashola-inspects-trains-facilities-for-lagos-light-rail-in-canada/[/quote

It is over five years since they started this deceit, pikin wey dey JSS1 then don enter university
You will never get any trains from them, yet they always write GEJ's trains off but they gave us nothing.

I have always said it, Fashola is a fraud; his SANship is also a fraud. I will go on TV someday to expose the mega-fraud dubbed a performer.

The last time we checked 4yrs ago, the carriages were on sea from canada... dem never reach? Or na hand dem dey use paddle the ship?

agabaI23:
Have the APC trains been delivered since 2011?


s, send this to front page. Lets talk about trains

FireFire, anonimi, Publisher, onisher, berem, barcanista, obiagelli, theV0ice(my good friend)
http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2011/05/15/in-pictures-fashola-inspects-trains-facilities-for-lagos-light-rail-in-canada/

The trains are arriving, go to eko rail website or just do s little research before exposing your ignorance and bad bele on the internet. The trains are a million times better than the ones from Siberia junk yard jonaSaTAn paid billions for..

aresa:


The trains are arriving, go to eko rail website or just do s little research before exposing your ignorance and bad bele on the internet. The trains are a million times better than the ones from Siberia junk yard jonaSaTAn paid billions for..

Haaaa! That's 4 years ago? If I told you the power issues will be solved that you should be patient just 1 year after privatisation, what would be your response?

You are giving excuses for a train that was inspected 4 years ago and no one has heard of it.
Can you give excuses if it was Jonathan?

I am not bad belle. I love Fashiola alone. If Tinubu was not with him, that guy would have done wonders in Lagos but Tinubu is the problem. So not bad belle.
By the way, why are you showing me the interior of a train that is yet to to come to Nigeria? Do not change the topic. When it arrives, we will compare. you cannot compare a bird that is still flying around in the bush with the one a in a cage

Like anonimi said, I hope this wont be another case of bad business decision

Seun, please front page

agaba123, my person, how far?

i'll you to ask that the lasg should deliver on that project o. i won't waste