Sudan Metro Station of Line 3 to open for passengers soon: Egyptian Ministry of Transportation

CAIRO – 5 August 2023: Sudan Metro Station of Cairo Metro’s Line 3 will operate soon for the public after conducting a pilot operation, announced the Egyptian Ministry of Transportation in a statement on Saturday.

The route of the third phase of the third line extends for a length of 17.7 kilometers and includes 15 stations, from Ataba Station to Kit Kat Square, to northern Imbaba and to the Ring Road, then to Mohandessin and Boulaq El Dakrour, passing through Wadi El Nile Street and Gameat Al Dewal street, and then extending to Cairo University.

On October 6, 2022, Cairo Metro’s third line received passengers for the pilot operation of the first part of phase three, which runs across four kilometers in the Egyptian capital.

The 3A part consists of four underground stations, namely Gamal Abdel Nasser, Maspero, Safaa Hegazy, and Kit Kat.

In mid-December 2021, the fourth phase of Cairo Metro Line 3 has claimed the US Engineering News-Record Magazine's (ENR) award as the world's best transport and railway project in 2021.

The virtual award ceremony was live-streamed from the US. The project is undertaken by a consortium made up of Arab Contractors Company and Orascom Construction PLC under the supervision of the Transport Ministry's National Authority for Tunnels