on the way back home,Thursday after classes, and after taking this new empty road heading toward rehab city escaping the ring road and the traffic there, It took us more than usual to go back home and that happened more than once this week. I though about it for a while and I found out that the day we imagined as the day with the traffic jam that would prevent any car from moving is coming soon. This day is really near. I heard that the average speed for a car inside Cairo is 20 Km, that means that if u want to go from Heliopolis to 6th of October which is 60 km away, it will take you 3 hours by your 20 km average speed, so consider yourself lucky if you go in less than that. The problem is as I’ve heard and found lots of logic in this reason, is that the number of cars and people are increasing while the roads and traffic network is not expanding on the same rate nor capability. The vertical expansion of Cairo is increasing the number of inhabitants while using one designed to handle 10 millions inhabitants living in the 80′s.plus the corruption letting building owners rent the parking level area for stores and restaurants. Also the driving behavior for Egyptians is a key role. We are not organized unless there is a big punishment waiting for us. if u have been driving in Egypt for some time, you have experienced being stalled in your car because people getting married and making a big deal out of it in the middle of the road with their cars, blocking anyone who is passing by, making big noise with their horns and finally coming out of the window to dance over ‘’Saad el Soghayar’’ music (local low class music). My family and I are really considering moving out to somewhere else rather than Heliopolis to avoid the traffic and its stress. Maybe rehab or somewhere in the 5th settlement would be much better.
traffic.. traffic.. traffic
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