Ministry performed Transport The Light Electric Train (LRT) project, the first and second phases have been opened and operated, and work continues on the implementation of the third and fourth phases, which connect the New Administrative Capital with Eastern Cairo.
The project serves 6 major cities of the new cities east of Cairo, and in the following points we review the details of the project.
Or not:
1. Design speed: 120km/h
2. Financial cost: $22 million per kilometer
3. Hourly capacity: 20-40 thousand passengers/hour/route
4. Daily capacity: 1 million passengers per day
5. The distance between stations: 3.5 – 6.5 km.
6. Places of implementation: connecting new cities over great distances.
7. Method of execution: (upper – shallow).
Benefits
• The track starts from the central interchange station of Adly Mansour, parallel to the desert road (Cairo – Ismailia), then branches north after Badr City to the Tenth of Ramadan City and south to the New Administrative Capital, then extends to the International City of Sport, with a total length of 105 km and 19 stations.
• The electric train project realizes the passenger interchange service with the 3rd metro line at Adly Mansour central station and serves the new cities on the Cairo/Ismailia desert road, such as Al-Obour, Al-Shorouk, Al- Mustaqbal and Badr up to the tenth of Ramadan in the north and the Administrative Capital in the south to facilitate the movement of citizens from Cairo to those cities and also vice versa, obtaining a further economic return by contributing to the growth and development of new urban, residential, commercial communities and industrial, as well as reducing the cost of maintaining surface roads as a result of reducing the traffic density on them.
• Realize the passenger exchange service with the monorail east of the Nile (Administrative Capital) at the Arts and Culture station in the Administrative Capital, and the express electric train at the Central Station of the Capital, which ensures the implementation of a network of integrated transport.
• Connect the administrative capital with the Greater Cairo region through a sustainable green mass transit network that is safe and effective and directly contributes to the agenda of addressing the effects of climate change.
• Environmentally friendly bus lines are planned to be integrated with the project’s stations to maximize benefits and increase passenger numbers, as well as creating car parks outside the stations accommodating around 800 cars to encourage private car owners to travel on the electric train.
• The project involves 22 trains with a speed of about 120 km/h moving on a track isolated by fences on both sides of a length of 120 km to ensure its safety during movement, as 7 bridges have been built for the train track with a length of 6 km and 4 car bridges to solve the problems of intersections with main axes and roads with a total length of 5 km, and two tunnels for the railway with a length of 500 meters and a tunnel were built for cars, in addition to the construction of 6 pedestrian bridges to facilitate the movement of passengers.
Reduced travel time for passengers along the route of the line, reduced fuel consumption as the operation of the line depends on clean electricity.
