Deputy Minister of Transport and Acting Chairman of the National Authority for Tunnels, Amr Shaat, announced that four stations will be opened within the first part of the third line of the metro, which extends 4 km from Ataba to Kit Kat. The first phase of the line extension will include four station: Gamal Abdel Nasser, Maspero, Zamalek, Kit Kat, connecting the districts Ataba, Bulq and Imbaba to their counterpart, Giza, located across the Nile River. Although the residents of Zamalek were not pleased upon hearing the news of their new metro station when construction began, a vicious campaign to abort the project was launched. launched a fierce campaign to cancel the project or at least divert the route of the metro. The reason for the residents’ anger was fearing that the old historic buildings would collapse due to their now fragile infrastructure. The second phase of the third metro line extension includes a 6.6 km long line, extending from Kit Kat station to the interchange station at Rawd Al-Faraj axis. Ring-exchange station at the Rod al-Faraj axis, scheduled to open in June 2022. The last phase is a 7.1…
