{UAH} Western Express; Bunyoro need a Railway Network - SGR Politicians Skewed Views

I will commit time to look for specialists to assist us - but let Africans built the western and Northnern express for Gods our childrens sake!

For good or worse let UPDF together with civil society built this (Western Express) SGR railway line. Every district can be helped to budget their section and contribution in manpower. Why is there unemployment because NRM has no resolve to launch development project. Development projects, is not going to a party. It is toil, sweat and tears. Read about the Volga, Russian railway to far East or those built in USA and Europe constructed with bear hands

Pakwach

Cross Victoria Nile – Massive bridge (ninth wonder of the world)
Bulisa
Bukumi
Hoima
Buhimba
Via
Kabwoya or Nakweyo
Kagadi-Kibale- Mubende
Kyenjonjo
Fort Portal
Via
Kamwenge to Mbarara
Kasese - Ishaka
Ishaka  Ntungamo
Ntungamo  - Masaka
Kampala – Masaka - Mutukula

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Bwanika <bulemezi@gmail.com> wrote:

Good Question and everyone  has to keep quite including  MPs from Acoli, Karamoj and as far as Kabale.

What estate developers in Kampala do in Kampala is to buy a hill and sale plots. The question is what come first? Basically Kampala produces nothing besides heavy consumption!

Bunyoro, parts of Toro and Acoli  have the largest National Park and Lake Mutanzige. I can't understand why for so many years there has been no infrastructure development like railway connetions, till oil and gas came on board. 

Blatantly let the railway generate development through mobility.  

Bwanika

On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 12:52:12 AM UTC+1, yowaana nyamutale wrote:

Dan Bwanika

What does Bunyoro-Kitara need a railway network for? What heavy produce do Banyoro have that needs a railway network?

Henry ford Miirima

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Dan Bwanika <bule...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have read and looked at the figures on Standard Gauge Railway and in my opinion politicians who are not engineering economists are making terrible mistakes without basic understanding of  Mega engineering project and correlation to financing and other invisible costs (unintended).

In Bunyoro we want the railway to come as soon as yesterday- let it cost what it will cost. Uganda has a fully furnished auditing department, (AG) an arm of the government which should have raised issues about that project.

But let me offer you tips I received from Professor Bent Flyvbjerg:

Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, a planning expert with the Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, founder and director of the university's research program on transportation infrastructure planning, author of the book about megaprojects and risk (Cambridge University Press). has written extensively about financing mega projects, which in his article Underestimating Costs in Public Works Projects Error or Lie? he thoroughly explains this issues, which should be read by Uganda Politicians.

I am not in love with the Chinese, who I believe take Africans for idiots but I will hold them accountable by using all engineering costing tools and analysis available rather than making sweeping statements where Uganda has never had or implemented any sort of project on that SGR scale. Moreover this country has no covering geo-technical data covering the entire country which make such projects very  expensive.

The same irrationalism has been used to judge KCCA project costs!

More articles from Professor Bent Flyvbjerg

- Bruzelius, N., Flyvbjerg, B., & Rothengatter, W. (1998). Big decisions, big risks: Improving accountability in mega projects. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 64(3), 423–440.

-Flyvbjerg, B. (1996). The dark side of planning: Rationality and
Realrationalität. In S. Mandelbaum, L. Mazza, & R. Burchell
(Eds.), Explorations in planning theory (pp. 383–394).
New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research
Press.

- Flyvbjerg, B., Bruzelius, N., & Rothengatter, W. (in press).
Megaprojects and risk: An anatomy of ambition. Cambridge,
UK: Cambridge University Press.

Bwanika

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