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Member of the Housing, Municipal Management, and Transport Committee at the Senate Hani al-Assal demanded expanding reliance on freight trains and inland transportation to reduce traffic accidents.
Minister of Transport kamel al-Wazir stated Tuesday in a phone-in that 11 senior officials at the National Railways Authority had been referred to the Military Prosecution.
The new trains offer the highest levels of luxury and modern technology.
The Spanish company will also provide maintenance and spare parts for 15 years.
Minister of Transport Kamel al-Wazir stated Monday that the ticket price of trains and metro will be raised by 25 percent by the end of August.
Nagdy pointed out that 80 percent of the components are locally made.
The project's 660-km first line includes 22 stations, with a designed speed of 250 km/h, the minister said.
The minister of transport also presented other investment opportunities.
Egypt is to test its first electric LRT train in a few days for the first time without passengers before the actual operation.
The Egyptian House of Representatives, headed by Counselor Dr. Hanafi Jabali, approved, during its sessions last week, a proposal to establish a tourist train linking both the Red Sea and Luxor governorates.
Scheduled to open to the public soon, each train of the new trains includes 6 vehicles.
The Egyptian government has taken concrete steps to revamp Greater Cairo's first metro line.
The LRT line had already begun pilot operation.
The Alexandria Port Authority received the first American tractor supplied by the American company BRL, in order to pull the new Spanish air-conditioned trains supplied by the Talgo Company.
The Ministry of Transport released pictures of the progress at Adly Mansour exchange station, which includes stops for Metro Line 3, light rail transit, Cairo-Suez railway, the SuperJet bus line, bus rapid transit.
Upon an invitation of Qatari counterpart Jassim Bin Saif al-Sulaiti, Minister of Transport Kamel al-Wazir held a visit to the Gulf state Sunday to hold talks on potential cooperation in the sector.
It is expected that the trials of the vehicles will take place without passengers for a period of 3 months before entering the service.
The deal is worth €125.6 million.
The LRT is planned to transport 500,000 passengers per day as it connects Salam City with 10th of Ramadan City through the New Administrative Capital (NAC).
Chairman of the National Authority for Tunnels Essam Wali indicated more details on its operation and ticket pricing.
