Light Rail in Lagos

After a lengthy bidding process, the two-line Lagos Rail Mass Transit project is set to break ground in September. This comes on the heels of the successful revamp of the city’s bus service, which now carries 180,000 passengers per day.

Can the rail project ever come to fruition in a city as chaotic (and chronically misgoverned) as Lagos? There are plenty of skeptics, given the recent failure to build two regional lines amidst charges of corruption. And, of course, whenever I hear about transpor