Lagos effort to build a coastal city failing so far
by editors@theworld.org (Jeremy Siegel) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6YX3W)
The megacity of Lagos, Nigeria, has one of the fastest growing populations in the world. But its infrastructure can't keep up. Roads flood. Public transport is scant. Officials hoped to fix that with the construction of an entirely new city on reclaimed coastal land. Pegged as a city of the future, Eko Atlantic features new roads, trains and housing. But so far, even with much of its construction complete, Eko Atlantic has been a bust, sitting almost completely empty and cut off from the rest of Lagos.