Editing Lagos (section)

=== Highways ===
[[File:Aerial-shot-of-makoko-community-in-lagos-3-third-mainland-bridge-aview2.jpg|thumb|[[Third Mainland Bridge]] across the [[Lagos Lagoon]]]]

The Lagos–[[Ibadan]] Expressway and the Lagos–[[Abeokuta]] Expressway are the major [[controlled-access highways]] in the north of the city and serve as inter-state highways to [[Oyo State]] and [[Ogun State]] respectively.<ref>{{Cite web |date=3 February 2022 |title=Ogun, Oyo move to deploy CCTV, drones to tackle insecurity on highways, borderlines |url=https://businessday.ng/news/article/ogun-oyo-move-to-deploy-cctv-drones-to-tackle-insecurity-on-highways-borderlines/ |access-date=12 March 2022 |website=Businessday NG |language=en-US |archive-date=12 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220312184017/https://businessday.ng/news/article/ogun-oyo-move-to-deploy-cctv-drones-to-tackle-insecurity-on-highways-borderlines/ |url-status=live }}</ref> To the west the congested Lagos–Badagry Expressway serves outlying towns such as [[Festac Town|''Festival Town'']], which was the location for the 1977 [[FESTAC 77|Festival of Black Arts and Culture 77]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Strategic Plan |publisher=[[University of Lagos]], Lagos |date=2003–2008}}</ref>

Lagos's importance as a commercial centre and port and its strategic location have led to it being the end-point of three [[Trans-African Highway]] routes using Nigeria's national roads.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Project-and-Operations/00473227-EN-TAH-FINAL-VOL2.PDF |title=African Development Bank/United Nations Economic Commission For Africa: "Review of the Implementation Status of the Trans African Highways and the Missing Links |volume=2 Description of Corridors |publisher=African Development Bank |date=14 August 2003 |access-date=14 July 2007 |archive-date=16 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116225759/http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Project-and-Operations/00473227-EN-TAH-FINAL-VOL2.PDF |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Trans–West African Coastal Highway]] leaves the city as the Badagry Expressway to [[Benin]] and beyond as far as [[Dakar]] and [[Nouakchott]]; the [[Trans-Sahara Highway]] to [[Algiers]], which is close to completion, leaves the city as the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Highways link 15 West African countries |url= https://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/vol20no3/203-highways.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070225095527/https://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/vol20no3/203-highways.html |archive-date=25 February 2007 |journal=Africa Renewal|volume=20| issue = 3|page=14 |publisher=Itai Madamombe : "NEPAD promotes better transport networks" |date=October 2006|doi= 10.18356/4def088a-en |access-date=4 April 2012|last1= Madamombe |first1= Itai }}</ref>