The Lagos–Abeokuta Expressway is an 81-kilometre-long (50 mi) expressway connecting Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State, and Ikeja, the capital of Lagos State,and Lagos Nigeria's largest city.

The expressway is the busiest inter-state and intra-city route in Nigeria handling more than 250,000 PCUs daily and constitutes one of the largest road networks in Africa.

[3] The regulator of the BRT scheme, the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), has boasted traffic on the heavily congested Oshodi-Iyana-Ipaja-Abule-Egba route would reduce by 40 percent after the completion of the project.

[4][5] The reconstruction of the expressway was announced on May 14, 2018, by Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) Minister of Power, Works and Housing of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with the goal of reducing travel time for hundreds of thousands of commuters.

The contract was awarded to Julius Berger Nigeria and Reynolds Construction Company Limited at a sum of ₦22,000,000,000.00, equivalent to $61,380,000.00.