Official: Reducing Speeds of Underground Trains due to Heat Wave

Ahmed Abdel-Hadi, spokesman for the Underground company at the Ministry of Transport, said that reducing the speed of metro trains is one of the annual routines in the summer; With temperatures reaching 40 degrees Celsius.

And he announced, during a phone call to the “Evening DMC” program broadcast on the “DMC” space channel, on Monday evening, that the speed of trains will be reduced from 80 km to 60 km in all surface stations of the first and second lines in order to avoid malfunctions, as well as to preserve the impact of the poles and the electrical network. At the top stations from hot weather.

Abdel-Hadi added that the temperature of the electrical network and the two poles range between 60 to 70 degrees Celsius when the weather temperature rises, explaining that reducing the speed would reduce the expansion of the electrical network.