Giza – Cairo Alexandria Desert Road – Tahia Misr Axis – Zamalek – Driving in Cairo, Egypt 🇪🇬

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Hey folks, driving in Cairo is interesting to watch. It is never boring on the streets of Cairo. For more information subtitles in different languages are available. If you have suggestions or feedback just leave a comment, thank you.

I also permanently displayed the permitted maximum speed. I’ve heard a lot of complaints about Speeding Tickets. In this way I hope to protect you from possible Speeding tickets. In future videos I will continue this on main roads.

You have to watch out for walking people, taxis, toktok’s and especially for (white) microbuses. Their behavior is unpredictable and it can lead to a disaster. Otherwise is driving in Cairo, Egypt a funny and enjoyable thing. Always wear your seat belt and keep to the speed limit.

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Cairo – Alexandria Dessert Road
The Cairo – Alexandria Desert Road, is the main highway that connects Cairo to Alexandria, the two largest cities in Egypt.
It is 220 km long. It begins at Giza, at the northwest corner of Cairo’s regional Ring Road, and ends in Alexandria.
Here are the historical facts:
1935 – The English Shell Company built the road six meters wide, built with rocks and covered with bitumen, using “mix in place” method.
1959 – The Egyptian government planned to cover the road with asphalt layers to enhance it.
1971 – The Egyptian government extended the road to 9 meters in width.
1981 – The Egyptian government added a second roadway. The road was thus upgraded to sustain 1.500 vehicles/day.
1998 – A third lane for each direction was established to increase the road capacity to sustain 13.500 vehicles/day.
2003 – A fourth lane for each direction was established to increase the road capacity to sustain 25.200 vehicles/day.
2005 – The government planned to light the road to increase the road’s quality.
In 2007, the Egyptian government represented by the General Authority for Roads, Bridges and Land Transport planned to develop the Cairo-Alexandria-Marsa Matrouh desert road and turn it into a freeway in compliance with global standards.
The project aimed to achieve the following:
• Establishing new service roads besides the main road to serve the existing structures along the road with ideal control for the road’s entrances and exits.
• Cancelling all surface intersections, the main reasons for many accidents, by building new free intersections.
• Lighting up road by installing lamps.
• Supply the road with intelligent traffic systems, marks and signs.
• Evaluating the engineering situation for the existing road with its different intersections and detecting its traffic capacity to the targeted year 2025.
• Enhancing the road’s specifications to comply with international freeway standards.
• Increasing the design speed to decrease the travel time.
• Decreasing the environmental effects.
• Developing the toll stations and building new ones.
• Developing emergency services like ambulance stations, emergency call cells and resting areas.
The GARBLT’s plan to develop the road was divided into four phases
Phase 1: Cairo – Alexandria (km 26 – km 126), Estimated costs 860 million EGP (45 million €)
Phase 2: Cairo – Alexandria (km 126 – km 187), Estimated costs 520 million EGP (27.2 million €)
Phase 3 A new link road, Estimated costs 370 million EGP (19.3 million €)
Phase 4: Alexandria – Marsa Matrouh, Estimated costs 950 million EGP (49.7 million €)