EGYPT’S President Abdel Fattah El Sisi made a tour on Friday of the sites of a number of road projects in the Greater Cairo to appraise progress on their implementation.
The tour took the president to the site of el-Muqqattam Hills Corniche where development works are being carried out, Presidency Spokesman, Ambassador Bassam Radi, said.
He added that the president also inspected some of the roads and axes leading to the same area.
These roads and road axes, he said, would help connect the area with different neighbourhoods in Cairo.
“They will also ease the movement of citizens and vehicles to and from Muqqattam,” Ambassador Radi said.
He added that – among other things – the new road projects would ease movement to the Yasser Rizk Axis which will link the Corniche with the Nile, downtown Salah Salem Road, and the Axis of Civilisations in the Muqqattam Plateau area.
He added that these projects would also facilitate the movement of Muqqattam’s residents to and from southern and central Cairo, including Maadi and Helwan, without the use of the Ring Road.
President Sisi also inspected the Hasballah el-Kafrawi Axis as well as a number of road axes around it, especially in the southern Cairo area, Ambassador Radi said.
He added that the president passed through the Ring Road, the el-Shaheed Axis, eastern Cairo and New Cairo.
He noted that President Sisi chatted with workers in different sites.
He gave directives for maintaining efforts to raise the efficiency of the nation’s roads and traffic axes across Greater Cairo.
This, the president said, would ease the movement of citizens and end traffic congestions.
The tour comes within the framework of state plans to modernise the road network and traffic hubs in Greater Cairo, according to the presidency spokesman.
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