Cairo adopts 1st bike-sharing program to ease unbearable traffic
380 views · Published 4 September 2017 · 2:47 · Indexed 21 September 2026
Channel: New China TV · 2017 · News & Politics
Cairo is known as being densely populated with unbearable traffic congestion, which is home to 20 million people, two million cars. Now, bicycle, an affordable and environmentally friendly means of transportation, could work as an efficient measure to develop the urban transport system in the capital. Egypt has signed in July a protocol with the UN Human Settlement Program to introduce for the first time a bike-sharing system to connect cyclists through bike lanes all over Cairo. According to the Governor of Cairo, the first phase of the project will channel 1.7 million U.S. dollars to the project, focusing on constructing bike-sharing stations, and allow individuals to borrow from point A and return it to point B. The governor added that it's the first project of its kind in the Middle East.
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