The Minister of Transport and a parliamentary delegation on an extensive inspection tour of the West Nile Monorail project 24/07/2023 | 10:40 AM
Within the framework of the directives of His Excellency President / Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, President of the Republic, to expand green, sustainable, clean, environmentally friendly mass transportation. Lieutenant General Engineer / Kamel Al-Wazir, Minister of Transport, accompanied by a parliamentary delegation headed by Representative Alaa Abed, Chairman of the Transport and Communications Committee in the House of Representatives, and includes each of
Representative Mahmoud Al-Dabaa, Deputy of the Transport and Communications Committee in the House of Representatives
Representative Issam Hilal, Member of the Senate, Assistant Secretary of the Future of a Nation Party, Representative Nader Al-Khabiri, Member of the House of Representatives, Representative Imad Al-Darjali, Member of the House of Representatives, Representative Osama Al-Ashmouni, Member of the House of Representatives, Representative Hossam Al-Mandwa Al-Husseini, Member of the House of Representatives, Representative Zaki Abbas, Member of the House of Representatives, Representative Muhammad Ali Abdel-Hamid, Undersecretary of the Economic Committee in the House of Representatives, Representative Salah Abu Hamila, Chairman of the Parliamentary Body of the Republican People’s Party, Representative Kamal Abu Jalil, Member of the House of Representatives, Deputy Mahmoud Al-Saidi, Member of the House of Representatives, and Representative Shehata Abu Zaid, Member The House of Representatives, Representative Omar Al-Qatami, a member of the House of Representatives, and Representative Ahmed Al-Sharani, a member of the Senate, made an inspection tour to follow up the rates of implementation of the West Nile Monorail project (6th of October), which extends from the New October station to the Nile Valley station, with a length of 43.8 km and includes 13 stations (New October - Al-Ahram Canadian University - Al-Sadat - 6th of October University - Engineers Syndicate - Mall of Egypt - Sheikh Zayed City - Alexandria Mansouria Road - Mariouteya - Ring Road - Bashtil - Wadi Nile) and is implemented through a consortium of companies (Alstom - Orascom - The Arab Contractors)
The tour began with an inspection of the control and control center of the West Nile Monorail, which is located near the industrial zone on an area of about 80 feddans, and which includes 13 buildings, the most important of which are (the control and control building through which the trains are controlled, the light and heavy maintenance workshop building for train maintenance, a train washing building, a train storage building, and a warehouse for storing various tasks).
Then the Minister of Transport and his accompanying delegation went to inspect the various sectors of the project in order to follow up on the implementation of columns, beams, maintenance and emergency walkway installations and stations along the track, where the total implementation rate reached 48.4% (51% civil works “include implementation, supplies and design” - 46% electromechanical works). 1.2%, equipment is manufactured by 56%, and tests are carried out successively, and supplies of electromechanical equipment are carried out by 38%,
The inspection tour also included inspecting the site of the Engineers Syndicate station, which is the station that serves (Engineers Syndicate - Misr University for Science and Technology - Misr University Hospital - Dar Al Fouad Hospital), through which the passenger transport service will also be exchanged with the first line project of the high-speed train network (Sokhna - Matrouh), located 600 meters away from it, the minister confirmed. The need for the thing to be returned to its original by all methods available in the project implementation sectors
The Minister of Transport also followed up the rate of supply of mobile units, as 9 trains have arrived out of a total of 30 trains that will be supplied to the West Nile Monorail project (6th of October) and are currently being manufactured according to the specified schedule.
The minister also congratulated the workers on the occasion of the new Hijri year and the anniversary of the July 23 revolution, stressing the need to work around the clock and exert maximum effort to complete the implementation of the project according to the specified timetable. Ain Sokhna - Alexandria - Matrouh) at the Engineers Syndicate station on the 6th of October, and with the railway network in the area of the Upper Egypt railway station in the Bashtil area of Giza at the Bashtil monorail station,
The Chairman of the Transport and Communications Committee and the accompanying delegation were representatives of the House of Representatives
They expressed their happiness with what is being achieved on the ground of huge projects during the reign of His Excellency President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, President of the Republic, stressing that the monorail project represents one of the important steps in the system of sustainable green mass transport, which is friendly to the environment, especially as it enters for the first time in Egypt. Including transportation projects
It should be noted that this project will represent a major civilized shift in mass transportation, which is fast, modern and safe, saves fuel consumption, reduces environmental pollution rates, eases traffic jams in the main axes and streets, and attracts passengers to use them instead of private cars to reduce fuel and fuel consumption. The monorail is also characterized by the fact that the distances are close between its stations, with an average of 2 km between each two stations, and it is implemented on an upper path with the possibility of implementing it in narrow and crowded streets that have a