Minister of Transport: The express train from Ain Sukhna - El Alamein includes 22 stations with a length of 660 km 02/01/2022 | 08:52 AM
The Minister of Transport, Kamel Al-Wazir, inspected the implementation works of the Ain Sukhna/ Alamein/ Matrouh train project, in the distance from Helwan to Ain Sukhna, passing through the new administrative capital. To industrial works on roads intersecting with the train track.
The Minister of Transport inspected the Helwan station, which serves the city of Helwan, the city of May 15, and all the area south of Cairo, which lies east of the Nile, and the Mohamed Naguib station, which is located at the beginning of the Mohamed Naguib axis, which serves the areas of Katameya and New Cairo, and the new urban areas that lie south of Ain Sukhna Road and the central station (which is a station Interchange with the light rail and it is considered a center for the various means of transportation coming to the Administrative Capital), which mainly serves the New Administrative Capital and the Sports City, as well as all new cities in eastern Cairo, in exchange with the light rail and Ain Sukhna station, which serve the Ain Sukhna area, whether they are tourist areas on the sea Al-Ahmar and the industrial areas, as well as the Ain Sukhna port area, and its service can extend to the new investment areas in the region, as well as the new city of Suez.
The minister directed the necessity of coordinating with all relevant state agencies and the governorates through which the express train tracks pass, in order to take into account the projects being implemented as well as the planned implementation, in order to work on the integration of the various means of transportation and to avoid any conflict in the ongoing and planned projects.
The Minister met with the workers and engineers participating in the project and conveyed to them President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s congratulations on the new Gregorian year. The Minister of Transport stressed the need to exert more effort and work around the clock to complete the implementation of the project at the planned time, especially with the importance of this project, which is the beginning of the rapid electric train network system that It will be implemented, which will represent a new cultural shift in the means of transportation in Egypt.
The minister pointed out that the high-speed electric train project (Ain Sukhna - El Alamein Matrouh), has a length of 660 km, and includes 22 stations, and that the design speed of the train is 250 km / h, and will contribute to linking the new administrative capital and new cities with the railway network to transport passengers and goods from Through a fast, modern and safe means of transportation, as it will start from the city of Ain Sukhna on the Red Sea coast to the new city of El Alamein, passing through the new administrative capital, the city of 6th of October and the city of Burj Al Arab
The minister explained that the rapid electric train system, which will cover all parts of the Republic, in addition to being development arteries serving the new and existing urban and industrial areas, will contribute to reducing and shortening the travel time between governorates to more than half the time that the citizen currently takes, whether through the old train network or through the current roads linking the governorates.