The Trans–West African Coastal Highway or TAH 7 is a transnational highway project to link 12 West African coastal nations, from Mauritania in the north-west of the region to Nigeria in the east, with feeder roads already existing to two landlocked countries, Mali and Burkina Faso .
7-587: The Lagos–Badagry Expressway is the local name for the Nigerian section of the Trans–West African Coastal Highway . The expressway connects Lagos, Nigeria with Dakar, Senegal . Extensive reconstruction of the Lagos portion of the expressway began in 2010. When those renovations are completed the Lagos portion of the expressway will be widened from four lanes to ten lanes for road vehicles and
14-564: A new mass transit line will operate in the median. Two of the expressway's lanes are intended to be exclusively used by the Lagos Bus Rapid Transit System . This Lagos –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about road transport in Nigeria is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Trans%E2%80%93West African Coastal Highway The eastern end of
21-702: Is complete that section will be ten lanes wide. The highway is a project of ECOWAS and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) of the AU, with funding from the African Development Bank . The route is Trans Africa Highway No. 7 (TAH7) in the International Road Federation's list of nine highways which it regards as priorities for a Trans-Africa Highway network. The cities and countries served, and status of
28-565: The Nouakchott-Dakar section of about 570 km (354 mi)). There are about 9 unpaved sections, but some paved sections require reconstruction. All are two-lane highways with the exception of short four-lane highways in the eastern third of the route. The ADB reports published in 2003 say that 32% of the highway is in poor condition, 9% is good and 59% is fair. Reconstruction of the segment in Lagos, Nigeria began in 2010, and when it
35-828: The highway terminates at Lagos , Nigeria . Some organizations such as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) consider its western end to be Nouakchott , Mauritania , and others such as the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa consider it to be Dakar , Senegal , giving rise to these alternative names for the road: The length of the route is 4,560 kilometres (2,833 mi) of which 83% or 3,777 km (2,347 mi) has been paved according to African Union (AU) documents, or 4,010 km (2,492 mi) with 3,260 km (2,026 mi) paved, according to African Development Bank (ADB) reports (which do not include
42-547: The road are as follows. Please note that a paved alternate route Dakar-Bamako-Abidjan (shown in black on map) is more practical. Information about construction required is from two sources: the ECOWAS website, undated document, and the ADB website, consultancy report date August 2003. Note: 'spur' indicates the city is on a spur off the main alignment of the highway, 'existing' could mean a pre-existing national road has been adopted for
49-506: The route or a section has been newly constructed. Bamako , Mali and Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso (the two landlocked countries of ECOWAS) are already linked to the coastal highway by paved highways to Abidjan, Accra and Lomé. Lagos is linked via the largest network of paved highways in West Africa, the national road network of Nigeria, with links to the neighbouring countries of Niger , Chad and Cameroon . The Trans-Sahelian Highway
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