The day the TV cameras or journalists show up to take pictures, everybody wants to be in the picture, hammering a nail or carrying a dozen steel rods. They all want to take magazines and newspapers with articles about the bridge back home to show their relatives and friends. The bridge tends to inspire that same pride on a national level. Twenty years later, going underground looks like the real future of transportation in Cairo's modern world. Even Mohamed Gamal thinks that bridges may be in a down phase.
Tunnels are far nicer.
You don't have to ruin the landscape. They're dug deep enough to avoid hitting the utilities. They cost more, but now Egypt is starting to build them. In the past, when 6 October began, we could only afford to build bridges to solve our traffic problems. Now a lot of people are saying they don't like the way bridges look in the city.