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The Cairo Monorail ( ar, مونوريل القاهرة) is a two-line
Cairo Monorail will use 70 fully automated, driver-less Bombardier INNOVIA Monorail 300 rolling stock for the two lines with four cars each. The rolling stock is to be manufactured in
monorail
A monorail (from " mono", meaning "one", and " rail") is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail or a beam.
Colloquially, the term "monorail" is often used to describe any form of elevated rail or people mover. More accura ...
rapid transit
Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), also known as heavy rail or metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas. A rapid transit system that primarily or traditionally runs below the surface may be c ...
system currently under construction in Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo met ...
, Egypt, which will be the longest driverless monorail system in the world. The two lines will create the first public transport links from the New Administrative Capital
The New Administrative Capital (NAC) ( ar, العاصمة الإدارية الجديدة, al-ʿĀṣima al-ʾIdārīya al-Gadīda) is a new urban community in Cairo Governorate, Egypt and a satellite of Cairo City. It is planned to be Egypt's ...
and 6th of October City
6th of October ( ar, السادس من أكتوبر, Al Sādis Min Uktōber; arz, ستة اكتوبر, Setta Oktōbar) is a city in Giza Governorate, a satellite town and part of the urban area of Cairo, Egypt, 32 km (20 miles) outside ...
to the Cairo metropolitan area when the project is complete. The 54km line connecting the New Administrative City with East Cairo will take 60 minutes, and the 42km line connecting 6th of October City with Giza
Giza (; sometimes spelled ''Gizah'' arz, الجيزة ' ) is the second-largest city in Egypt after Cairo and fourth-largest city in Africa after Kinshasa, Lagos and Cairo. It is the capital of Giza Governorate with a total population of 9. ...
will take 42 minutes.
The first section of the system is set to open to the public in 2022 with another stage in 2023.
Routes
New Administrative Capital (East Nile) line
Due to begin operating in May 2022. long, with 22 stations including: Stadium, Hisham Barakat, Nouri Khattab, the 7th District, Free Zone, Marshal Tantawy, Cairo Festival, Air Hospital, Narjis District, Mohammed Naguib, American University, Emaar, Nafoura Square, Al Barwa, Middle Ring Road, Mohammed Bin Zayed, Regional Ring Road, Almasa Hotel, Ministries (Al Wezarat) District, and Administrative Capital and Station 22 (not yet Named). The line will provide a transfer to theCairo Metro Line 3
Cairo Metro Line 3 is a main line of the Cairo Metro mass transit system in Greater Cairo, Egypt.
Currently, the line connects Kit Kai in west-central Cairo with Al Salam bus stop at a station named Adly Mansour metro station. The line
crosses t ...
at its terminus in Stadium station. It will also be connected to the Cairo LRT at Almasa Hotel station (transfer to the Arts and Culture City station of the LRT).
6th of October City (West Nile) line
Projected to begin operating in February 2023. long, with 13 stations: New October Station, Industrial Zone Station, Sadat Station, Sixth of October City Authority Station, Engineers Association Station, Nile University Station, Hyper One station, Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road, Mansouriya Station, Mariouteya Station, Ring Road Station, Bashteel Station, and Nile Valley Station. The line will provide a transfer to theCairo Metro Line 3
Cairo Metro Line 3 is a main line of the Cairo Metro mass transit system in Greater Cairo, Egypt.
Currently, the line connects Kit Kai in west-central Cairo with Al Salam bus stop at a station named Adly Mansour metro station. The line
crosses t ...
at Nile Valley Station, part of the line's eastern expansion plans.
Rolling stock
Cairo Monorail will use 70 fully automated, driver-less Bombardier INNOVIA Monorail 300 rolling stock for the two lines with four cars each. The rolling stock is to be manufactured in Derby, England
Derby ( ) is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, which is in the East Midlands Region. It was traditionally the county town of Derbyshire. Derby gain ...
.
See also
*Cairo Metro
The Cairo Metro ( ar, مترو أنفاق القاهرة, Metro Anfāq al-Qāhirah, lit. "Cairo Tunnel Metro" or ) is the rapid transit system in Greater Cairo, Egypt. It was the first of the three full-fledged metro systems in Africa a ...
* Urban rail transit in Africa
Urban rail transit in Africa has emerged as a growing form of transit due to rapid urbanization that has occurred in recent decades across the continent. Some of these transit systems are older and more developed, such as the metro in Cairo which ...
* List of monorail systems
A monorail is a railway system in which the track consists of a single elevated rail, beam or track with the trains either supported or suspended. The term is also used to describe the beam of the system, or the vehicles traveling on such a beam o ...
* Egypt's High-speed rail
Egypt has no operational high-speed rail links, but a project was launched in 2018 to construct three such lines with a total length of about . The first line links the cities of Ain Sukhna and Marsa Matrouh, the second connects the cities of Sixt ...
References
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