The Minister of Transport is following up the rates of implementation of the third phase of the LRT project 26/02/2023 | 09:16 AM
Lieutenant General Engineer / Kamel Al-Wazir - Minister of Transport continued his inspection tours to follow up on the projects being implemented. The Minister inspected the work of implementing the third phase of the LRT project. The tour began with the Minister of Transport inspecting a number of sectors of the phase, which extends for a length of 20.4 km from the City of Arts and Culture station in the capital. Administrative (which is the station that was inaugurated as part of the opening of the first and second phases on 7/3/2022 with the honor of His Excellency President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, President of the Republic) and even the Central Capital Station (the interchange with the first line of the high-speed train network "Ain Sukhna - Alexandria - Matrouh") With 4 stations, which are being implemented by Egyptian contractors under the leadership of the Chinese consortium, Kreik-Avik
The minister also inspected the implementation and construction sites of stations, track bridges, and the train storage workshop, and was briefed on the implementation rates, which amounted to 19.5% for the regular work of the stage, where the pile works, reinforced bases, and columns for the Nativity Cathedral station (upper station) were completed, and the foundation works for the Strategic Command station (station) were completed. surface) and the building works are being carried out in it, and the piling work for the Capital Central Station bridge has been completed, and the construction works (piles – columns – beams) are currently being implemented in the bridges of the track. About 62 acres.
During his tour of the third phase, the Minister of Transport followed up the rates of implementation of the commercial area at the Arts and Culture station, which is being implemented on an area of about 90 acres consisting of a commercial mall with an area of 14 acres and a tourist walkway linking the two stations of the City of Arts and Culture with the electric train project and the East Nile Monorail near the government district of the Administrative Capital. In addition to a future plan for the construction of a hotel and a group of commercial and administrative facilities, concrete work for the walkway has been completed and civil works for the mall are underway.
It is worth noting that the LRT project extends 105 km in length and has 19 stations. Its route starts from the Adly Mansour Central Interchange Station, parallel to the (Cairo-Ismailia) desert road, then branches north after Badr City to the Tenth of Ramadan City and south to the New Administrative Capital, then extends To the International Sports City, and the LRT project achieves passenger exchange service with the third line of the metro at Adly Mansour Central Station and also achieves passenger exchange service with the East Nile Monorail (the Administrative Capital) at the Arts and Culture Station in the Administrative Capital, and with the first line of the fast electric train network At the Central Capital Station, which ensures the implementation of an integrated transport network.