“Egypt Receives New Monorail Vehicles for East and West Nile Projects”

Esraa Abdel Qader

Thursday, May 11, 2023 08:00 AM

“The Seventh Day TV” broadcast, special coverage prepared by Israa Abdel Qader, and presented by Germaine Shalaby, during which he reviewed that the Ministry of Transport had received new numbers of monorail vehicles that had recently arrived in Egypt, as part of the state’s plan to compress the operating time period, as the monorail of the administrative capital will be operated. new this year.

The East Nile monorail (the administrative capital) connects Nasr City with the administrative capital, where it exchanges service with the third line of the metro at the stadium station on Youssef Abbas Street, reaching Khalifa Al-Zafer Street and the Seventh District, passing through Zakir Hussein Street, reaching Al-Wafaa and Al-Amal, then heading to the axis of Field Marshal Tantawi and the southern Teseen Street. All the way to Beit Al Watan, then it passes through the neighborhoods of the New Administrative Capital, and this path has many high-density residential blocks.

The monorail is implemented in places where it is difficult to implement metro lines and other means of rail transport, as the monorail is characterized by the possibility of its implementation in narrow and crowded streets that have large horizontal curves and does not require many modifications in the facilities, and expropriation works are greatly reduced..

The West Nile Monorail project (6th of October) is being implemented, linking Mohandessin and Imbaba with the 6th of October City, where it exchanges service with the third line of the metro at the Nile Valley station, heading to the high-density 26th of July axis, reaching into the neighborhoods of 6th of October City, ending in the city’s industrial zone.