At 2.55km, Al-Mounib Bridge is one of the longest to cross the Nile, linking the western section of Greater Cairo at the Marioutiya Canal in Giza to the Nile Corniche at Maadi. It cost LE420 million to build and will save an estimated LE100 million annually for motorists travelling this route.
Congestion is a major problem.
The bridge is good news, too, for those living in eastern Cairo. If your home is in Heliopolis, Abbasiya, Matariya or any of the surrounding districts and you want to get to 6 October or Sadat City or even Fayoum, you no longer have to face a million and one traffic lights in central Cairo. Traffic conditions will further improve with the imminent opening of the 26 July route, running from Lebanon Square in Mohandessin to the start of the Cairo-Alexandria desert highway near the Pyramids. The Al-Mounib Bridge and the 26 July route, in turn, are just two parts of the Greater Cairo ring road currently under construction. It will serve transport needs not only in Greater Cairo but across the whole of Egypt, easing congestion for transport from Upper to Lower Egypt and vice versa.