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Speed train: ‘We‘ll deliver next year’ - Edoman - 10-30-2019 Speed train: ‘We‘ll deliver next year’ October 29, 2019 [/url] [url=https://thenationonlineng.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Gas-Pipe.jpg] The tour last week of 34 kilometres of the Lagos corridor of the Lagos-Ibadan Standard Gauge rail project was an eye opener that the section was fraught with impediments requiring patience and tact, writes ADEYINKA ADERIBIGBE Since he learnt of the imminence of the take off of commercial activities on the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge, Abiodun Thomas (not real name) was one Nigerian with very high hopes. He resolved to celebrate his birthday (which came up on October 23), on the conference coach of the speed train. Thomas indeed had a birthday bash last Wednesday, but not on the coach. He was disappointed, but not deterred. Thomas is one of those Nigerians who hold tenaciously to the dream that the speed train holds. Asked last Thursday whether Nigerians would be able to utilise the speed train this year, one of the local engineers with the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) at the Agege Train Station said yes. He however put the most realistic date at between December and first quarter of next year. The engineer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Lagos corridor, spanning 45 kilometres in all (Section one – from Ebute Meta – Iju – Toyin area) remains the only challenging phase of the project. According to him, but for the absence of train stations, passenger traffic could begin on the remaining 97 kilometres from Toyin, in Iju, which is the border with the Ogun corridor, to Kilometre 157 in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The engineer’s suggestion is not novel. Minister of Transportation Mr Rotimi Amaechi, and the Nigerian Railway Corporation’s Chairman Alhaji Alhassan Musa as well as the Managing Director, Mr Fidet Okhiria, have at various times, proffered that as the only option available, if then tracks are to be put to use before the contractor completes the project. The $1.7 billion (being initial cost outside of the various variations confronting the project), Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge is the nation’s third speed train system, coming after Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri and Abuja-Kaduna speed trains. Amaechi had directed that the Corporation devise an arrangement that would make it possible for passengers to purchase tickets and board easily while CCECC put in place  more befitting train stations. Instructively, all the 10 train stations have already taken off and are in various stages, with CCECC disclosing it may deliver some of the smaller stations by December.