100 vehicles of Egypt's 1st BRT to be delivered within days

CAIRO – 12 September 2024: Sources told Al Mal newspaper Thursday that the Ministry of Transport would receive the first batch of the vehicles of the bus-rapid-transit (BRT) within days.

MCV finished the manufacturing of 100 vehicles out of 300 at a cost of $1 billion. The capacity of each vehicle, to be operated on the Ring Road, is 70 passengers.

The project – worth LE9.5 billion- is being implemented over three phases. The first phase – whose pilot operation will begin in October – extends from the Police Academy located in New Cairo until the Agricultural Road.

The BRT will have dozens of stations, and be connected with other means of transportation such as metro lines and trains. 

The Ministry of Transport had announced in the end of 2021 that once the BRT enters service, microbuses will be banned from using the Ring Road. Stations will be created for such private public transport vehicles below the road, which is basically a very long bridge. As such, passengers would be able to reach the BRT stations by riding in microbuses.

The BRT vehicles are being manufactured in Egypt by the factories of the Ministry of State for Military Production, Ghabbour's MCV, MAN, and Geyushi Motors.

The introduction of the BRT has been made possible through the ongoing expansion of the Ring Road connecting Greater Cairo together. That is because there will be seven lanes in each direction, so as one will be allocated to the BRT, while the rest will be used by passenger cars.