Cairo Prepares for Opening “Bike Path” in Center of City

Maj .Gen, Khalid Abdel Aal, Cairo's  Governor received on Monday a delegation of the United Nations for Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) chaired by Victor Kissup, Assistant of the UN Secretary-General  of the UN & Vice Executive Director of that program to discuss opening of " Bike Path" in the center of the city.

It is worth to mention that President Abdel Fatah Al Sisi has directed to use bike as a safe healthy means of transportation.

Cairo Governorate cooperates with the international program in a number of projects and activates protocol of the cooperation between them.

The governor of Cairo stressed over the meeting that he is proud of the fruitful cooperation with the UN program to improve the urban environment in Cairo and restore its beauty and elegance, especially the Khepate Cairo.

The governorate has adopted a program to upgrade Abdeen Square along with other areas in the center of the city.

Officials of the governorate  also prepare for a project named “ Green Path” to improve  services of bikes through  the streets and furnishing lots for parking bikes and spreading culture of using bikes as a means of  transportation.

The governorate will implement another project named “ Bicycle” to enable  citizens to partner in bikes safely and define their paths in Cairo.

Government also  seeks to integrate bikes with other means of transport in Cairo. Bike is a safe and economic means of transportation which reduces emission of gases causing air pollution and global warming.

Maj. Abdel Aal added that the governorate has allocated places for bike paths through Cairo.

An experimental project will be launched later this year  in Cairo. A traffic lane widens 1.7 meters will be allocated for bikes in the center of the city.

The path of bikes extends to 2 km and  be will supplied with traffic signs to measure effects of that experiment on traffic in the center of the city.

If the first stage succeeds, the second one will ensue by the next year. The new bike lane would extend to 15 km.

Governor of Cairo pointed out that  Egypt has launched recently the National Project of Bicycles and it adopts a campaign of a bike for every citizen to support social and environmental climate in the Egyptian universities.

This campaign aims to make the Egyptian citizen healthier and physically sound.

The governor and the UN officials visited Abdeen Square to inspect bike parking lot there along with bikes path in Mohamed Farid St. in the center of Cairo.

The meeting of Cairo Governorate and the UN officials was attended by Ali Erfan, Regional Director of the United Nations for Human Settlements Program  (UN-Habitat) and Mrs. Rania Hedayah,  Director of Egypt’s office of  the UN program along with a number of senior officials of the governorate.