Egypt to raise Metro ticket prices 100% in 2018

CAIRO – 9 July 2017: Egypt will increase the Cairo Metro ticket prices by up to 100 percent in 2018, Minister of Transport Hesham Arafat said on Sunday.

Arafat added in an interview with the independent daily newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm that the tickets’ prices will range from LE 2 to LE 4 ($0.11 to $0.22) according to the number of stations used by the passengers.

In March, Egypt raised the prices of the Metro tickets by 100 percent to reach LE 2.

The minister’s announcement comes few days after the latest raises of the prices of electricity by 15-36 percent depending on the consumption bracket, following the Cabinet’s new increases to fuel price.