Four people were killed in the Giza district of Cairo on Wednesday when a train smashed into a taxi at the Ard el-Lawa crossing level crossing. The dead are all thought to have been passengers of the taxi, including a woman and her baby girl. Eye witnesses to the accident said the taxi driver refused […]
Egypt needs to invest 45 bn Egyptian Pounds to make its railway safe according to Mohamed Sadek Sherbini, Chairman of the Transport Committee of the upper house of the Egyptian parliament, the Shura Council. He said human intervention must be minimised by expanding automatic control across the network in order to address improvements in passenger […]
President of Egypt Mohammed Morsi yesterday attended the site of the rail crash that claimed the lives of 19 young recruits to the Central Security force and injured more than 100. President Morsi visited survivors in hospital accompanied by press and TV cameras, while helicopters circled the site of the accident, and pledged that officials […]
A rail accident has killed 19 young army recruits and injured more than 100 in the Badrasheen neighbourhood of Giza in Egypt, 40 km south of Cairo early on Tuesday, 15th January. The train, a military vehicle, was travelling from southern Egypt to Cairo when eye witnesses say two rear carriages detached from the rest […]
As investigations proceed into the cause of the Egyptian rail disaster that killed more than 50 children, the spokesman for the prosecutor general has called for train speeds to be reduced. Adel Saeed stated that railway authority officials have been urged to use their influence to not only reduce the speed of trains approaching railway […]
After the tragic rail accident that killed 51 schoolchildren at the weekend, Minister of Transportation Mohamed Rashad Al-Mateeny has resigned from his post. Families and angry locals have demanded that the government take swift action after the state of Egypt’s rail system was condemned. The government have responded by setting up a fact finding committee, […]
Release date: 14 November 2012 Reference: 2012-161-EN The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a first EUR 200m tranche of the EUR 600m loan approved by the Bank for the extension of the Cairo Metro and a EUR 45m loan for a Community Development Programme. Both projects represent the Bank’s first response to the new […]
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