In message , at 11:43:32 on Mon,
31 Jan 2011, Ian Jelf remarked:

One last think - without getting into the whole nomenclature debate
w.r.t. development and all that, the final comment in the ES piece is
suitably daft ("Sometimes it feels like I'm in the third world in
London") - one wonders if the student who was quoted knows much about
the transport systems in place in say Lagos.

Actually, I often *do* find myself wondering what public transport *is*
like in such places. Does anyone here actually have first hand
experience of using it, because I'd genuinely be interested to know.

It's very likely to be a shared minibus scheme. Halfway between a taxi
and a hail-a-ride bus on a vaguely pre-planned route.
--
Roland Perry