Cairo’s new monorail glides above a city struggling below

Cairo’s new monorail slices across the city skyline, running above the familiar chaos of blaring horns and ageing buses’ exhaust fumes that mark rush hour below.

The $4.5 billion monorail, opened this month, is among Egypt’s most prominent new transport projects, part of a debt-funded infrastructure drive criticised for sapping state finances while bringing limited benefits to most of the country’s 109 million people.

“It feels like you’re in a different country,” said Ramy Sayed, 44, aboard a driverless Innovia 300 train.

المصدر: Al-Monitor