Final touches on the first and second phases of the electric light rail project, in preparation for the trial operation 25/01/2022 | 01:59 PM
The Minister of Transport, Lieutenant General Kamel Al-Wazir, stressed the importance of the LRT El-Salam / New Administrative Capital / Tenth of Ramadan project, as it is a new development artery for the new urban communities (Al-Obour - Al-Mustaqbal - Al-Shorouk - New Heliopolis - Badr - Industrial Zone and the 10th of Ramadan). - The New Administrative Capital) in addition to the exchange of passenger transport services with the third metro line at Adly Mansour station, with the Ain Sukhna / El Alamein fast electric train at the central station, and with the East Nile Monorail that serves the new administrative capital at the City of Arts and Culture station.
He added that waiting areas will be established next to all LRT stations to facilitate the citizens, and the stations will be commercially exploited to increase the economic return of the project.
The Minister confirmed that the finishing touches for the first and second phases of the LRT electric train project are currently underway, in preparation for the start of trial operation during the coming period before their official opening. The highway on Sokhna Road, with a length of 18.5 km, with 4 stations.
The Minister of Transport explained that the ministry is diversifying the electrical traction projects that it is implementing with the aim of expanding the establishment of a green, smart, clean and environment-friendly transport network, including the East Nile Monorail project (the New Administrative Capital), which extends from the stadium station in Nasr City to the Justice City station in the administrative capital along 56.5 km, and includes 22 stations, and is implemented through a consortium of companies (Alstom - Orascom - Arab Contractors).
The minister said that the rate of supply of mobile units is going according to the schedule, as the first and second trains have arrived from a number of 40 trains that will be supplied to the East Nile Monorail project (the administrative capital), and the third train is planned to arrive during the month of January, and the rest of the manufacture is being completed. The project’s mobile units fleet, which will arrive successively according to the specified schedule
The minister stressed that the work is going on 24 hours, and everyone is making every effort to complete the implementation of the project according to the specified schedule, as this project is considered one of the mass transportation that will serve the new republic whose rules have been established by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, noting that It will link the Greater Cairo Region with the new urban areas and cities in the east (New Cairo - the Administrative Capital) and will contribute to facilitating the movement of employees and expatriates from Cairo and Giza to New Cairo and the Administrative Capital, in order to integrate it with the third metro line at the stadium station in Nasr City, and with the train Electricity station in the City of Arts and Culture in the new administrative capital.
It is noteworthy that the monorail project is being implemented in Egypt for the first time, and it will represent a great cultural shift in mass transportation, which are fast, modern, safe and environmentally friendly, save fuel consumption, reduce environmental pollution rates, and relieve traffic jams on main axes and streets. It attracts passengers to use it instead of private cars to reduce fuel and fuel consumption. The total length of the two monorail projects (East / West Nile) is 98.5 km with 35 stations. The capacity of each of the two monorail lines is 600,000 passengers per day. The monorail has 4 cars, and it is planned to increase the number of cars to 8 cars, with the increase in population density in the new urban areas it serves.