Egyptian President Abdel Fattah
al-Sisi inaugurated the Adly Mansour Transportation Hub in east Cairo. He
listened to a detailed explanation from Transport Minister Kamel al-Wazir about
the station and also inspected one of the electric trains at the Adly Mansour
station.
The Adly Mansour Transportation Hub
is the largest in the Middle East.
It is designed as a central
interchange station that includes an integrated service transportation complex,
and a commercial investment area on an area of 15 acres.
The service at the station exchanges
between five different means of transport, including a metro station for the
third line of subway, an electric train station (Adly Mansour – the New Administrative
Capital – the 10th of Ramadan), a railway station (Cairo / Suez), a super jet
station, and a station for the shuttle bus to connect with Cairo International
Airport.
The project is part of the fourth
phase of the third metro line, which starts from Nozha Station 1 at the Gesr
al-Suez area, then Hisham Barakat station, passing through Quba station, then
Omar ibn Al-Khattab station, then the Huckstep station, all the way to Adly
Mansour station, all of which are overhead stations with a total length of
approximately 7.5 km.
The Adly Mansour station represents
the end of the third line of the metro, and it includes three different
stations: a metro, an electrified train and a shuttle bus, which the National
Authority for Tunnels plans to implement and run to connect Adly Mansour
station with Cairo Airport directly in one trip without stops.
The most important achievement of the
Adly Mansour station is that for the first time in the history of metro
projects, a station has been fully implemented by Egyptian hands through
national Egyptian companies.
The Adly Mansour metro station will
be the beginning of the stations of the electric train project (Al-Salam – the
New Administrative Capital – 10th of Ramadan City), which is currently being
implemented.
The station includes the third line
workshop for the metro on an area of 65 acres, and is the largest workshop in
the Middle East and Africa for maintenance Metro trains and heavy pilgrimages.
Its pilot operation and the influx of
passengers to use the electric light rail (LRT) began at Adly Mansour, the
first station of the project following its inauguration.
The price of a ticket for the light
electric train LRT for three stations is LE 15, its value increases to LE 20
for up to 5 stations, while the ticket price for up to seven stations is LE 25
pounds, and the ticket price for nine stations is LE 35.
Source: Egypt Independent