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@GRVlagos From an Urban and regional planning perspective there are significant planning concerns in your conceptual design. Your urban planning logic, regional development implications, environmental sustainability, transport economics and long-term functionality do not add up at all. Building a road around Lagos Lagoon does not automatically translate into a better connected, more efficiently planned Lagos metropolis. Your presentation appears to prioritise the visual attractiveness of the infrastructure and its connectivity benefits without demonstrating the comprehensive planning studies required to establish that the project is desirable, feasible and sustainable. I am an Urban and regional planner so let me break it down to you.

To further buttress Mr @Bond_not_james 's earlier explanation on this AI-generated masterplan by Mr GRV, I am highly disappointed that someone running for governor of Lagos could be this lazy with research. He generated these images with an AI tool and posted them as a plan for the state, and people are in the comments saying wow. I work in GIS and Construction, and a good part of that work has been on Lagos waterways. both coastal and lagoon I have done the Falomo to Epe trip more times than I can count, gone through Ojo Creek and Badagry Creek, and gone all the way to where Epe meets the Ogun State boundary. When I saw this video, I knew arguing in the comments would not be enough. That is why I decided to design these maps, so that anybody, including you sir, can see the difference between the Lagos in your video and the Lagos on the Lagos that truly exist. Follow me one image at a time. Image 1: This is not Lagos Let's start from your own picture. You drew one big lake running from Ikorodu to Epe, with Ijede sitting directly across the water from Ibeju-Lekki. Now look at the real lagoon beside it. The open water of the Lagos Lagoon stops about 18 km before you reach Epe. After that, all you have is a channel about 1 km wide. Ibeju is not on the Lagos Lagoon at all. It is 15 km away from it. If you draw a straight line from Ijede to Ibeju, it is 34 km long, and 24 km of that line is dry land. Those fine AI waterfront estates you put on the south shore? That place is forest and swamp. Abijo, Lakowe and Awoyaya are 6.5 to 7.7 km from the lagoon edge. So before we even talk about bridges, the map itself is completely wrong. Image 2: Your four "short bridges" on real ground Now let's take your four bridges and place them where they would actually stand. The water spans add up to 17.2 km of bridge. But a bridge has to land somewhere. On the Lekki side, your bridges land 3.8 to 13.7 km away from the Lekki-Epe Expressway, so you need about 58.6 km of new road through swamp and forest just to reach them. Your video did not show one metre of that road all its is showing is AI moving car. Also note that this lagoon is mostly under 2 m deep. Barges cannot reach the site without dredging a channel first, and the piles have to go deep through soft clay and peat. And after spending all that money, every one of the four bridges brings its traffic back to the same Lekki-Epe Expressway that is already choked at Ajah. You have not solved the traffic. You have only moved it. Image 3: The real 4th Mainland Bridge Your chart says the 4th Mainland Bridge is "37 km, one crossing". Sir, 37 km is the length of the whole corridor. The part that actually crosses the lagoon runs from Langbasa to Baiyeku. I measured it on the map at 4.5 km, the same figure Lagos State has published. That project is estimated at $2.5bn, which is more than the entire 2026 capital budget of ₦2.34tn for every sector in Lagos. That is why it needs PPP and bank financing. Yet you are telling people that four bridges with far more length over water will cost a third of it. Using the Second Niger Bridge rate of ₦206bn for 1.6 km, your 17 km of bridge alone comes to about ₦2.2tn, before one metre of approach road. That is a full year of capital spending for the whole state. So where is the money coming from? Image 4: What Lagos is already building The eastern corridor is not an empty space waiting for renders. Look at the green line. The Omu Creek road and bridge is under construction right now. It runs 4.1 km from Sangotedo to the lagoon edge at Ito-Omu, and the bridge is about 600 m, not 6 km. Now follow the light green line from the Itomu jetty. That is an existing road, unpaved, running 30.6 km through Eleranigbe until it comes back onto the Lekki-Epe Expressway at Eleranigbe junction. it connects communities, like isan, Oko-abe, oriba and other communities in epe and ibeju-lekki in that axis, Okada riders and those who has Trucks and SUV use it every day, and I mapped part of it myself. Pave that road and Lagos has a second east-west route beside the expressway, on land the road already occupies. The yellow line is the federal Lekki Deep Seaport to Epe road, which is ongoing and takes port and refinery trucks to Epe. The blue line is the 4th Mainland Bridge, which already has a route, a design and people ready to finance it. Somebody who wants to govern Lagos should be asking how to finish and connect these projects, not throwing them away for a fresh drawing that only exist in ChatGPT. Image 5: Omi Eko, the lagoon is already a network Your video treated the lagoon as an obstacle to cover with bridges. Look at the blue lines on this last image. Those are ferry routes. On this stretch alone, about 19 ferry links already run between a dozen jetties, from Ikorodu to Itomu. People from Ikorodu, Baiyeku, Ijede and Ibeshe go straight to Falomo by boat, with no bridge and no Third Mainland traffic. Under Omi Eko @TalktoLaswa , terminals like Badore are being upgraded. Badore alone has five mapped routes, and Badore Road takes you from the terminal to the expressway. Now see how everything connects. Omu Creek Road ends at the Itomu jetty. Badore Road ends at Badore terminal. The 4th Mainland Bridge lands at Langbasa and Baiyeku, which are both ferry points already. You can decide to drvie all the way or come down from a bus and you enter a boat. That is what intermodal transport means for Lagos. Building roads does not mean we should stop using the water. Now let me ask you something. Do you know what the Land Use Act says, and what it actually takes to acquire land in Lagos, even for public use? Every one of those bridge landings sits on somebody's ancestral land. You will be sitting with families, omo onile, baales, obas and community heads, negotiating compensation and resettlement. That is before you get to the EIA, and before you face the fishermen whose livelihood is on that water. Those conversations happen in Yoruba, inside those communities, with people who know every inch of their land. For someone who has downplayed the importance of learning Yoruba, how do you plan to sit at those tables? It is obvious you have not spent much time beyond the Island. None of this shows up in an AI image. Revit, Lumion and AI can make anything look convincing, but a fine render is not knowledge of the ground, and it does not make a project feasible or fundable. Being an architect does not automatically mean you understand governance either. Lagos is run through institutions, budgets, land administration, communities and projects that have to continue from one government to the next. You are proposing to govern an entire state. First, understand the state beyond the images you can generate of it.

I see the content… but the first thing I noticed is that exposed rock face. They just cut through that slope… no tie backs? no slope stabilization mesh? 🤯

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