Engineer Kamel Al-Wazir, Minister of Transport, confirmed that 10 monorail trains have arrived, out of a total of 40 trains that will be supplied to the East Nile Monorail project, “the administrative capital,” noting that the manufacturing of the rest of the project’s mobile units fleet is being completed, which are being supplied successively according to the schedule. specified.
The minister explained that it will connect the Greater Cairo Region with the new urban areas and cities to the east, “New Cairo – the Administrative Capital”, and will contribute to facilitating the movement of employees and expatriates from Cairo and Giza to New Cairo and the Administrative Capital, in order to integrate it with the third metro line at the stadium station in Nasr City and with The electric train at the Arts and Culture City station in the New Administrative Capital.
It should be noted that the monorail project is being implemented in Egypt for the first time and will represent a great cultural shift in mass transportation, which are fast, modern, safe and environmentally friendly, save fuel consumption, reduce environmental pollution rates and ease traffic jams on main axes and streets. At the end of his tour, the minister stressed the completion of all the construction work of the monorail project within the scope of the capital and the construction of the electric train from the arts and culture station to the cathedral station before the end of October 2022.
