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Alstom supplies 40 four-car Innovia 300 trains and CityFlo 650 signalling and states the line runs unattended at GoA4 from a control centre in the new capital; no independent confirmation of unattended running was found
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The much-quoted 45,000 passengers per hour per direction is a design figure. No ridership has been published
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the same Innovia 300 monorail runs São Paulo's Line 15, where staff rode the trains from 2014 until unattended operation began in March 2025
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src-d67bc089af128d06Fetched. The only genuinely independent reporting found. Supports: 6 May 2026 opening, 16 of 22 stations at launch with the Nasr City stations to follow, 56.6 km, Nasr City to the New Administrative Capital, the fare ladder (20/40/55/80 pounds, 50% subscription discount), sparse use at peak hours, stations hard to reach, and the calculation that daily use takes about 22% of the minimum wage against a 15% ceiling it attributes to UN guidance. Also quotes an analyst that the line serves 'a different social class'. Note its '$2.8 billion project' figure is not the programme cost — it matches Bombardier's own consortium share, see the 2019 release below.
src-180b299b5787f061Fetched. Supports the current status: phase two opened Saturday 27 June 2026 adding six stations (Cairo Stadium, Hisham Barakat, Al-Azhar University, Seventh District, Field Marshal Ahmed Ismail, Jehan El-Sadat), bringing all 22 stations into service; operating hours 06:00-21:00; discount days. Publishes no ridership figure.
src-75f1a02859576584Fetched. Primary contract source, supplier-issued. Scope: design and build two lines plus 30 years of O&M; 54 km East Cairo to the New Administrative Capital and 42 km 6th of October City to Giza; 70 four-car Innovia Monorail 300 trains (280 cars); total value 'exceeds $4.5 billion US (4.1 billion euro)', of which Bombardier $2.85bn and Orascom Construction close to $900m. Language is 'flagship performance in driverless operations'; the release makes no 'longest driverless monorail' claim.
src-2d2bfb7bac4247b3Fetched. Financing detail: £1.7bn UKEF guarantee behind a €1.89bn facility (including financed ECA premium), JP Morgan as initial mandated lead arranger and facility agent with CaixaBank, Crédit Agricole, Credit Suisse, KfW Ipex-Bank, NatWest, Société Générale and UBS; SACE and CESCE as reinsurers; described as the largest amount UKEF has ever provided for an overseas infrastructure project.
src-c2ba73a53825a329Fetched. Trade press relaying Alstom's announcement — this is the origin of the automation claim used in the snippet: 'CBTC GoA4 signaling, which means fully automated operation without a driver on board, according to Alstom's announcement.' Also: 16 of 22 stations at launch, vehicles built at Alstom's Derby plant, up to 45,000 passengers per hour per direction as maximum capacity, and platform screen doors described as a continental first. Not independent of the supplier.
src-d0fa3fb9c0e34112Fetched (article dated April 2024, pre-opening). Trade profile corroborating route geometry (Line 1 54 km/22 stations; Line 2 42 km/13 stations, Boulak to 6th of October City), the $4.5bn Alstom-led consortium contract of August 2019, the UKEF £1.7bn plus New Urban Communities Authority loans on 14-year terms, 70 Innovia 300 trains at up to 80 km/h, CityFlo 650 moving-block CBTC, the 30-year O&M term and 45,000 pphpd. Its completion targets (Line 1 late 2024, Line 2 2025) were both missed.
src-d576b85d1754419dFetched. Tertiary source, used only for route geography and the status of the unbuilt line: East Nile termini Stadium (Cairo) to Justice City, 56.5 km, 22 stations, inaugurated 20 March 2026 with passenger service from 6 May; West Nile line New October to Nile Valley, 45 km, 13 stations, 'currently further delayed, with no estimated operation date'. It is also where the 'projected to become the longest driverless monorail system in the world when completed' claim sits — struck from this entry as contingent on a line that is not built. Its financing attribution to the EBRD and EIB was not corroborated by any source checked and is not used.
src-044319267388a660FETCH FAILED — HTTP 403 to automated retrieval, as did alstom.com/monorail-story-greater-cairo. Content reached only through trade-press relays (Railway PRO above), which is why the GoA4 claim is attributed rather than quoted from the primary.
src-9fb18ca8e1f68a07FETCH FAILED — HTTP 503. The official government project page could not be read; no government primary source is therefore cited for the technical or ridership claims.