The National Tunnels: an interchange station in the new capital, similar to “Adly Mansour” 07/11/2021 | 01:45 PM
Major General Essam Abdel Qader Wali, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Authority for Tunnels, said that the second way to connect the communities east of Cairo with the New Administrative Capital and the Tenth City is the monorail line, which is one of the longest monorail lines in the world, with a length of about 97 km. The first part of the monorail east of the Nile starts from the stadium station and arrives For the new administrative capital to be integrated with the electric train in Arts City, and the second line starts from 6th of October City to integrate with the third line at the Nile Valley station.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Authority for Tunnels, during his speech to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on the work of the fourth session of the exhibition and conference on smart transport, logistics and transformation of green transport, explained that within the framework of the state’s interest in implementing a network of high-speed and high-speed trains, a network of lines with a total of 2,000 kilometers of linear kilometers is underway to connect ports The Red Sea through the Mediterranean ports, passing through all the new cities, whether in the Delta or Upper Egypt. These lines are:
The first line starts from Ain Sukhna to the administrative capital of Alexandria, El Alamein to Matrouh, with a length of 660 km. The contract was signed and implementation is underway on the ground.
The second line is the October - Aswan line, and its length is 925 km.
The third line is Luxor - Qena - Safaga - Hurghada, and negotiations are underway to sign contracts.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Authority for Tunnels continued that within the framework of economic integration ordered by President Sisi, similar to the central interchange station, Adly Mansour, a central interchange station is being implemented in the Administrative Capital, consisting of a building for the light rail station, in addition to a hotel administrative building and an administrative building connected to the monorail. And the capital's bus stop to become an integrated station for modern transportation.