President Abdel Fatta El Sisi paid a visit yesterday to the Integrated Transport Centre near Cairo International Airport.
Constructed on an area of over 300 feddans (acres), the centre is located north of the Suez-Ring Road intersection.
The centre, an important point for reaching destinations both inside and outside Egypt, accommodates an international bus terminal as well an another for domestic journeys. Other facilities in the centre include shops, an administrative complex, entertainment areas, restaurants and hotels.
The workshops of the fourth line of the Greater Cairo Metro will be part of the centre, conveniently sited amid arterial roads to the governorates.
Its proximity to Cairo International Airport facilitates traffic from the governorates to and from the airport.
The centre will also ease traffic in Cairo, reduce travel times and fuel consumption, thus protecting the environment, Presidency Spokesman, Ambassador Bassam Radi said.
President Sisi directed the officials constructing the centre to include all modern services in the International Bus Terminal to be integrated with the surrounding road network.
The Suez Road was recently widened to nine lanes in each direction. A parallel road to the Ring Road was upgraded to eight-lane carriageways. A new road was also constructed to connect the Ring Road, Suez Road and the Mohamed Naguib Axis.
President Sisi also made a tour of the ongoing upgrade of roads and axes in eastern Cairo, Ambassador Radi said, adding that a special visit was made to the axis connecting new roads with the Autostrad, Suez Road and the Ring Road.
