The Adly Mansour Transportation Hub is a transportation hub in Cairo, Egypt inaugurated on 3 July 2022 by the Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Located in Al Salam district, the complex connects five different transportation modes: the Cairo Metro, the Cairo Light Rail Transit, the Cairo–Suez railway, the SuperJet regional buses, and Bus Rapid Transit services.^[1] It is bordered to the north by Ismailia Road, to the north and east by the ring road, to the south by a depot of Cairo Metro line 3, and to the west by property owned by the Ministry of Civil Aviation.^[2] With an area of 15 feddans, the station is being regarded as the largest in the Middle East.^[3][4][5]

Services

The Adly Mansour station serves as the terminus of Line 3. It was inaugurated as part of the fourth phase of the line on 16 August 2020.^[6] The station has an area of 3,700 m (12,100 ft) and consists of three levels on a building space of 10,000 km² (3,900 sq mi). The ground level contains twelve ticket booths, two ticket vending machines, and 23 turnstiles. Four escalators and two elevators take riders from the ground level to the first level.^[7] The first level includes control rooms and two musallas, and eight escalators take passengers from the first level to the platforms. The station has three tracks; two are for revenue service and are used to terminate trains, and an additional one for station storage or for arriving to the train depot. The station is secured by 65 surveillance cameras from the inside and outside.^[7] Near to this station is a depot used for maintenance of the Cairo Metro trains; it is considered the largest depot in the Middle East and Africa.^[8] The depot has an area of 65 feddans and consists of 32 maintenance buildings, and can store up to 30 trains.^[9]

The complex also includes a bus stop which is served by three bus services: the SuperJet for transportation between governorates, the electric rapid bus transit (BRT) linking the hub to Cairo International Airport, and another BRT linking to Al Salam and Obour bus stops. The bus stop has an area of 1.5 feddans and includes a building that provides all services for riders and a bus area that have a capacity of 24 buses. Sabri Ayoub, president of the administrative council of SuperJet, stated that the stop contains the first bus charging station in Egypt with four chargers that can charge up to eight buses.^[10] The transportation hub contains a two-story mall and a "bedroom" that acts as a parking area with an area of 16,000 square meters, in addition to 31,000 square meters of green space, a waiting area for cars of an area of 11,000 square meters, and 1,300 meter network of roads, as well as 200 meter long tunnels.^[11]

Awards

The American magazine Engineering News-Record had chosen the complex as the best transportation project of 2022.^[12][4] The project also made Archplan to receive the award for the Best Luxury public services architecture in 2022 by Luxury Lifestyle Awards, headquartered in New York.^[13]

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