Three-Year Construction of Monorail System Linking Egypt’s New Capital to Cairo Begins

Egypt’s Ministry of Transportation has announced that as of August 1^st, construction on a monorail system linking the New Administrative Capital to Cairo’s Nasr City is in action, according to Daily News Egypt, with Al Shorouk reporting that the €3bn project will take 36 months to complete.

This is in addition to another monorail system which will link 6^th of October City to Giza, with Canadian company, Bombadier, set to partner up with Egypt's Orascom Construction and Arab Contractors.

Bombardier Inc. is reputable in the field, having developed the above-ground, driverless Innovia Monorail, which it said will be the same ones that will be used in Egypt. They travel at 80 km/hour and, with 300 of them set to be delivered to Egypt, can accommodate as much as 48,000 passengers.