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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun May 22 00:51:33 2011 Yep ... even Nigeria is building rail now, the third world doing what America can't. :( Lagos to run smoothly on rails soon Tease: LAGOS, Nigeria – A giant billboard towers over a stretch of road in central Lagos, offering a tantalizing vision of the future: a sleek, modern station from which Lagosians will be whisked efficiently around the city on a light rail transit line. But beyond the billboard is the current reality of traffic in one of the world’s fastest-growing cities: a bumper-to-bumper crawl of cars, trucks, and rickety minibus taxis known as "danfos." The dusty construction site for the new transit line is a jumble of motorbikes, hawkers and pedestrians who ignore warning signs and weave through the concrete foundation pillars. Translating the vision into reality will be no easy feat. But the Canadian company that is handling the logistics of the innovative project is convinced that Lagos’s groundbreaking foray into urban light rail transit will become a model for booming African cities of the future. Rail lines like the one being built in Lagos can help boost productivity, economic development and quality of life in a rapidly urbanizing Africa, said Peter Kieran, president of CPCS Transcom Ltd. The light rail line will be one of the first in sub-Saharan Africa, and will have "demonstration impact" for other African cities, he said. "They’ll say, 'we can do this as well. We can have this too.'" --- Read and see more above ... |
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