Cairo Transport Authority
The Cairo Transport Authority (CTA) is the national operator of the local public transport (public transport) in Greater Cairo . This includes buses , trams and ferries .
Bus transport
Only two-axle and one-story buses are used in urban traffic in Cairo and its suburbs. As a rule, there are no timetables and routes and the bus stops rarely have shelters or signs. The vehicles are only labeled in Arabic . With very few exceptions, there are no bus lanes, which means that bus traffic is subject to almost all road traffic restrictions.
The 2,600 vehicles transport 1.3 billion passengers per year. These operate on 450 lines with a length of 8,460 kilometers.
The central stop for local buses is at the Midan Abdelmunim Riad near the Egyptian Museum.
tram
The Cairo Transport Authority operates two interconnected meter-gauge tram networks in Cairo and Heliopolis over a length of 30 kilometers . Since the takeover of the formerly independent Heliopolis company in 1991, all routes have been under the control of the CTA.
Isolated from the network in Cairo and Heliopolis, the CTA has also been operating some newly built meter-gauge tram routes in the industrial city of Helwan south of Cairo with an additional 16 kilometers since February 19, 1981 . The tram network in Helwan was not in operation at the end of 2011, the overhead line has been dismantled.
Due to the further expansion of the metro network over the next few years, the future of the tram network in Cairo and Heliopolis is not guaranteed. Heliopolis is to receive a fast metro connection to the city center of Cairo and the most important cross-connections in the north and west between Schubra al-Chaima, Heliopolis and Nasr City will in future be on the planned new metro route.
Ferries
The ferries in Cairo mainly operate in the inner city area. A central landing stage is the Maspero landing point (ماسبيرو) north of the Egyptian Museum, but there are also stops further south (including in Garden City and Old Cairo).
literature
- Dipl.-Ing. Christoph Groneck: Article Metro and other public transport in Cairo: development and perspectives in the magazine "stadtverkehr" issue 2/05, EK-Verlag, Freiburg / Breisgau