infrastructure investment, the Blue Line will revolutionise travel along the east- west corridor and save millions of hours every year. Schabas says he and his partners’ experience in Lagos has been very good, stating that contrary to reports it is a safe city that is getting cleaner with “what once were piles of garbage being replaced by parks every time I visit.”
Sponsors of the Red Line are trying to negotiate access to Nigerian Railways Corporation’s right-of-way.
some very good trains.” Eko Rail expects to use around a third of the trains on the Blue Line, but was obliged by TTC to buy the entire fleet. Initially it had hoped to use them if it was selected as the concessionaire for
the Red Line project but if this does not happen, Eko Rail will look to sell approximately 124 cars which Schabas says are ideally suited to a new metro start-up, like Lagos. In a city currently crippled by lack of
Of course the project is also a source of local jobs. And while there is an abundance of low-cost low-skilled labour, it has been more difficult to fill highly-skilled jobs with local professionals. But where Nigerians might have looked to London or New York for better paid jobs in the past, the commitment of the Lagos State Government to invest in local infrastructure and utilise a successful PPP hints at more attractive opportunities at home. And with a growing economy, and the most stable banking system in Africa, all spurred on by a visionary governor, Lagos appears to be emerging as a prosperous African destination.
“In 1960 Lagos was the Singapore of
West Africa and there is no reason why it cannot be again,” Schabas says. IRJ
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