As of Saturday 15 June, tickets to Cairo’s third metro line cost EGP 5 to 10 rather than EGP 3 to 7, the Ministry of Transportation announced. The ticket for rides up to nine stops on the third metro line will now cost EGP 5, rides of 6-15 stops will be priced at EGP 7, and rides of 16 stops or more will cost EGP 10. However, the ticket prices of the other two metro lines remain unchanged. Ticket prices for students, people with disabilities and senior citizens will remain the same as well costing EGP 33 for 25 stations for students, EGP 22 for 25 stations for people with disabilities and EGP 135 for 35 stations for senior citizens. The third metro line was inaugurated on Saturday and is one of Cairo’s main mass transit system lines, connecting central Cairo’s Attaba with Heliopolis to the northeast. It aims to fully extend all the way to the northeast, eventually serving Cairo International Airport. The new stations of Haroun El-Rashid, El-Shams Club, and Alf Maskan also began operation on Saturday. According to the Ministry of transportations, the stations on the new…
