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Kinki Sharyo #6033
Built: 1978Uploaded: 2018-11-14 18:38:59
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16 february 2010 - Cairo, Egypt - Atef el Sadat Square: Some pictures today of the former Cairo tramways, which suffered a long and painful death, killed off by a combination of murderous road traffic and extensions to the metro system. Here is a Kinki Sharyo two car train running along a section of reserved track on the edge of Heliopolis. These once private tracks were nearly all swallowed up to make more roads. The large fleet of Kinki Sharyo trams was built here from imported parts in 1978 and was quite broken by the time I visited.
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did they rebuilt it to roads? Did I understand it correctly?
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@ Tatus - yes, mostly. The private tracks ran mostly between wide dual carriageway roads, so the trams only met other traffic at junctions, although here they had to force their way across through heavy traffic (and the Egyptian way of driving means that no one will ever give way unless you drive right across in front). Progress was very slow, not helped by rails in a bad condition. As soon as trams finished, roads were widened in many places to make even more room for cars. They saw this as progress :-(
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