Lagos

Lagos has grown into a vast metropolitan area where mobility strongly shapes access to employment and services. For decades, informal minibuses carried most public-transport demand, while congestion, long travel times and flood-prone roads imposed high costs on everyday movement between the mainland and the island districts.

The city’s Bus Rapid Transit system introduced dedicated high-capacity corridors and became a major reference for African urban transport. Later investment expanded BRT infrastructure and included flood-resilience measures on vulnerable road sections and drainage systems. The significance of these projects lies in the link between transport and metropolitan structure: reliable mass transit can concentrate movement along corridors, improve accessibility and reduce dependence on fragmented informal routes. Lagos still faces severe congestion, but its transport network increasingly provides a framework for organising future growth.