Al-Ahram Weekly | Egypt | Truckloads of trouble - The Diigo Meta page

• 04 May 08
  

  Farrah Bakr

  Cairo Traffic-Truckloads of trouble

  • Better traffic? It's because trucks are rarely on the road within city limits
  • strictly regulating the movement of large trucks in the capital to improve the flow of traffic
  • banned to travel on most bridges
  • Cairo streets are designed to accommodate the movement of 500,000 cars
  • in reality are trampled on by two million cars
  • Mustafa Sabri, professor of transportation planning and traffic engineering at Ain Shams University

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