We are racing against time to quickly finish the electric train project "Al-Salam - Administrative Capital - Tenth". 24/10/2021 | 09:45 AM
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The National Authority for Tunnels is racing against time to quickly complete the implementation of the El Salam electric train project - the administrative capital - the tenth of Ramadan in order to start operating trials and tests for the project, which is planned to start trial operation without passengers at the end of this year after it was planned during the current October, as the authority is working to implement a timetable Compressed to finish the remaining work. The construction works have been completed along the stations of the first and second phases, whose trial operation is scheduled to start at the end of this year at 100% lengths. The sources added that the first batch of the electric train project trains are currently in the project’s workshops in Badr City, in preparation for the start of trials and tests of operating without passengers using these trains at the end of this year, in conjunction with the arrival of the batches of trains contracted for this project, which amount to 22 trains being manufactured in China. The project after its opening and operation to the public. The sources pointed out that the French company PATP Dev, which will manage, operate and maintain the project’s trains after its opening for a period of 15 years, is the one who will conduct the tests and operating trials, noting that the first and second phases of the project, which are planned to start operating trials at the end of this year, extend with lengths of about 70 km. The sources confirmed that the French company will be responsible for managing and operating this project after its inauguration without interfering in determining the ticket price, as it will receive an agreed-upon fee for the management and maintenance in monthly payments, pointing out that the electric train project achieves the connection and the passenger exchange service with the third line. For the subway (Adly Mansour - Cairo University) at the Adly Mansour station, it will also connect with the Administrative Capital Monorail at the Administrative Capital Station 2, and it will connect with the El Alamein - Ain Sukhna high-speed electric train, which is being implemented at the Administrative Capital station. The electric train project starts from the city of Salam, where it connects with the third line of the subway at Adly Mansour station, passing through the Cairo-Ismailia desert road until the city of Al-Rubiki, north of the Suez railway, and then branching out in Al-Rubiki into two branches. The first branch heads north along the regional ring road, Where the track starts north after Badr City, heading to the Tenth of Ramadan City, and the other branch heads south from Al-Rubiki Station to the New Administrative Capital and continues to the New Sports City. The project starts from Al Salam City, where Adly Mansour station is the first station of the electric train project, and passes through its path on the cities of Al-Obour, Al-Mustaqbal, Al-Shorouk, Badr and the Administrative Capital, and ends in the Tenth of Ramadan City, where this path represents the first phase of the project. Al-Din Al-Shazly via an upper bridge that passes through it during its intersection with the Saad Al-Din Al-Shazly axis, and each station is adjacent to a parking lot that passengers of the electric train can use after operating it to park their cars until the end of their journey by electric train.

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