Engineer Kamel Al-Wazir – Minister of Transport, accompanied by Major General Hossam El-Din Mostafa, head of the General Authority for Roads and Bridges and the authority’s leaders inspected the comprehensive development project for the road around Greater Cairo, where the minister inspected the first phase of the project Ring road development Around Greater Cairo, which the development and expansion works have been completed, which includes the distance from Mariouteya / El Munib / Autostrad / New Cairo / El Salam / Mostorod / Alexandria Agricultural and the distance from Mansourieh intersection / Fayoum Road / Wahat Road intersection with a total length of 76 km.
During his tour, the Minister of Transport followed up the implementation of the second phase of the project, which includes the distance from the ring road intersection with the agricultural Alexandria to the ring road intersection with the desert Alexandria and the Alexandria desert sectors / the Oasis link and Mariouteya / Mansourieh with a total length of 34 km.
The second phase also includes the axes of Mariouteya, Algeria and Al-Marj, and the construction of the beginning and house of the intersection of the Ring Road with Ismailia Agricultural.
The progress in the implementation rates of the service road (surface), which is 10 meters wide around the ring road from outside and inside, was followed up. The High Mast and the works of the Intelligent Road Transport System (ITS), which achieve the highest levels of safety and security on the road Such as the station of the frequency bus in the axis of the Field Marshal and the link between it and the monorail of the administrative capital, and instructed the minister to write the names of the BRT stations in Arabic
The road will become 6 lanes for owners, then an internal lane designated for BRT buses, bringing the total to 7 lanes in each direction, except for the Munib Bridge, which will be a total of 8 lanes in each direction, where the implementation of the BRT project will enter the ring road in implementation of the political leadership’s directives to expand the implementation of networks and means of transport Green sustainable and environmentally friendly The Minister also inspected the sites designated for charging BRT buses.
On the sidelines of the tour, the minister stressed that the project to develop and expand the ring road is an epic by all standards, and is implemented over a 24-hour period, noting that we are racing once morest time to complete all stages of this important project and that the development, expansion and comprehensive maintenance works that are implemented will contribute to raising the level of service. For road users, and to accommodate the large volumes of traffic flowing on it throughout the day, in addition to reducing the journey time for road users, reducing energy consumption for vehicles, as well as reducing negative environmental impacts, appealing to citizens not to throw waste on the ring road and roads to avoid accidents while maintaining appearance Civilization of the road and the fulfillment of the health requirements for the population, pointing to the implementation of a plan for the optimal utilization of the spaces under the bridges and using them in the establishment of parking for microbus and waiting areas for the BRT bus service.
side of the bridge
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Development and expansion work
Reverse bridge
