The axes and development of buses and metro expansion .. How does the country face traffic congestion inside Cairo?

Traffic crowding constitutes a major crisis, especially in Greater Cairo and some sub -areas. The matter exceeds noise and wasting a lot of time on the roads, and extends to the high economic cost, which reached in Greater Cairo alone to 8 billion pounds, according to a study issued by the World Bank in 2014.

The state has developed a plan to build and construct a road and a major network to confront the traffic crisis within Greater Cairo. The Ministry of Transport has established projects, major traffic axes at a value of 1.6 trillion pounds, including about 700 km of roads and axes in the vicinity of Cairo, and President Abdel Fattah Al -Sisi confirmed that these projects contribute to reducing traffic congestion and facilitating the daily movement of population and transportation, in addition to reducing pollution rates.

A study issued by the World Bank, May 2014, stated that the economic cost of traffic congestion in Greater Cairo alone amounted to 8 billion pounds, expected to increase the cost during 2030 to 18 billion.

The study indicated that the number of cars on the main axes and roads reached between 4: 7 thousand vehicles per hour, and each of the Ring Road at Maadi and the October 6 Bridge recorded the busiest places, as traffic reached 7,000 thousand cars/ hour in both directions and throughout the day.

Below we monitor the most prominent traffic axes that were held within the Greater Cairo range..

Long live Egypt Bridge

The bridge length is 540 meters, and its width is 67.3 meters, it contains 6 traffic lanes, links the bridge north and east of Cairo to the Alexandria Desert Road, and connects the circular and regional road, and the bridge serves the areas of highway, Al -Warraq, Al -Amiriya, Al -Sujah and Shubra Al -Khaimah.

The bridge was built in 4 years with 4000 engineers, workers and construction, under the supervision of the Engineering Authority of the Armed Forces, and the concrete bridge deserved to enter the Guinness Book as a scum bridge show in the world.

Paradise axis

The axis links the center of the center of Cairo and the main axes: Salah Salem Road, the highway, the circular road, the new Cairo regions and the administrative capital, with the aim of reducing traffic congestion in the areas of Nasr City, Heliopolis and the 6th of October Bridge, in addition to reducing fuel consumption to reduce pollution rates.

The project included the implementation of projects to waste rainwater, the restoration of the Kanuwa Dome, located on the Al -Mehwar Road, and the establishment of fences in front of the graves destinations and installations located on both sides of the road.

The axis of civilizations

The implementation of the axis of civilizations began in March 2021, and the axis includes 2 bridges..

The second bridge starts from the gate of the Museum of Civilization, passing through the area of Imam Al -Laithi and Al -Shafi’i, until it is linked to the highway road, and the axis achieves traffic liquidity and reduces the time to move from eastern Cairo to the Corniche of Manial, and aims to connect the archaeological area of Al -Fustat to the rest of Cairo.

Development of the circular road

The circular road development process started in September 2019, with a length of 106 km, and the cost of the project was 7.3 billion pounds, according to what is published on the website of Egypt Projects Map.

About 99% of the expansion of the Munib Bridge was implemented to be 8 lanes instead of 4, by creating a supportive road on both sides, and work is underway to finish the expansion of the rest of the road from the highway to Mariotia.

The project includes maintenance of entrances and exits and lighting the road, and the completion of cleaning the road from the paving layers with a length of 12 km from Mariotia to the Maadi Highway, bridges and pedestrian tunnels along the road, along with the development of the intersection.

Regional circular

The Engineering Authority of the Armed Forces, the Reconstruction Agency of the Ministry of Housing, and the General Authority for Roads, Bridges and Land Transport contributed to the establishment of the regional ring with a length of 400 km and a width of 42 km, and contains 4 traffic lanes in each direction.

The regional ring links Cairo and 15 governorates through intersection with a number of other roads, which helps to increase trade between the governorates of the Republic and reduce traffic congestion on the main roads.

The president opened the last stage of the bridge in 2018 and its cost was about 9.5 billion pounds, and links the Cairo-Alexandria agricultural and desert roads.

Public transport projects

The annual bulletin of public transport statistics issued in 2018, which is the latest edition, announced that the number of vehicles owned by public transportation bodies and companies reached 8.9 thousand vehicles, distributed over 2.3 thousand lines, and the total lengths of the lines are about 274 thousand km.

And the share of the Greater Cairo from Public Transport 4.509 thousand, of which 412 air -conditioned buses, 3559 other ordinary, about 78 minibus air conditioners, 425 non -air -conditioned, and the total public transport users inside Cairo 1.5 million passengers.

Development of public transportation buses

A statement by the Ministry of Local Development announced on 2021 that Egypt is being developed by public transport inside Greater Cairo by converting buses to work with natural gas and electric energy, and the statement indicated that an amount of 6 billion pounds was disbursed to buy 2000 new buses, 7 electric buses, and 182 buses operating with natural gas, In addition to holding 2000 buses.

Development of subway trains

The first and second lines

The National Metro Authority is developing the metro infrastructure, by developing signal systems in the first line, which will reduce the time of vehicles to two and a half minutes instead of 5 minutes.

The authority contracted with the French Stoms to manufacture 55 air -conditioned trains to include the first line, as well as rehabilitating 23 other trains, and the authority had bought 20 trains from Hyundai, in 2016.

The authority planned to purchase 4 air -conditioned trains for the second line of the subway, with the maintenance and rehabilitation of the vehicles used at the present time.

The authority announced that the cost of the development plan for the first and second lines, amounted to 30 billion pounds, the first line of which is 26 billion, and the second is 4 billion pounds.

Third line

Work is done on the completion of the third stage of the third line of the subway, and the first part of the stage will open in next June, with a length of 4 km, and the number of stations of the third stage is 15 stations, and the total cost of the line amounted to about 97 billion pounds.

وتعد أهمية Third line في أنه يربط بين وسط القاهرة والعاصمة الإدارية من خلال محطتي التبادل مع الخطين الأول والثاني وهما: جمال عبد الناصر والعتبة، بالإضافة لتحقيقه التكامل مع Monoril, the administrative capital وأكتوبر.

Electric train

قال الدكتور عصام والي، رئيس الهيئة القومية للأنفاق، إنه انتهت أعمال إنشاء مشروع Electric train السلام- العاصمة الإدارية- العاشر من رمضان، وسيُفتتح أمام الركاب خلال أسابيع، على أن يكون الافتتاح على مرحلتين خلال شهري مارس وإبريل.

وأوضح والي، في تصريحات صحفية، أن عدد القطارات التي وصلت القاهرة 12 قطارًا كهربائيًا، على أن يجرى شحن 10 قطارات أخرى خلال الأيام القادمة، مشيرًا أن Electric train 500 ألف راكب يوميًا.

Monoril

The Cabinet Information and Support Center, affiliated with the Council of Ministers, announced the establishment of Egypt for Monoril in the administrative capital and another in the city.

Monoril, the administrative capital

Monoril starts from Nasr City to the administrative capital, with a length of 56.6 km, and it includes 22 stations, and will open the first stage next May, and the second in February 2023.

تبلغ سرعة Monoril 80 كم/ساعة، ليقطع رحلته من استاد القاهرة حتى العاصمة في 60 دقيقة، ومع اتصاله بThird line للمترو في محطة عادلي منصور سيساعد على نقل الموظفين من القاهرة والجيزة.

Monoril October 6

تبدأ رحلة Monoril من محطة جامعة الدول العربية في مترو أنفاق Third line حتى مدينة السادس من أكتوبر، ويضم 12 محطة بطول 42 كم، ومن المتوقع أن ينتهي العمل به يونيو 2023.

For his part, Dr. Magdy Salah Nour El -Din, Professor of Roads and Traffic in Cairo Engineering, said that President Sisi's residence for road projects inside and outside cities is a great renaissance in the infrastructure, especially the internal axes in eastern Cairo to facilitate traffic during work and daily study trips.

Salah added in exclusive statements to Cairo 24, that the Cairo axes reduce the time of arrival trips, and keep their users away from traffic congestion, in addition to designing them with high specifications to avoid traffic accidents and absorb them with the huge traffic through the large road capacity.

He pointed out that the importance of the new roads in Cairo is that it is working to facilitate the movement of mobility to and from the administrative capital, by linking it between the capital and central Cairo, which helps employees and workers transferred to it to easily move to it..