Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday opened a suspension bridge ...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attends the opening ceremony of floating bridges and tunnel projects executed under the Suez Canal in Ismailia, Egypt May 5, 2019. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
The bridge, which crosses the Nile just north of central Cairo, is a key link in a highway stretching from the Red Sea in the east to Egypt’s northwestern Mediterranean coast, and is meant to help reduce congestion in the capital. At its widest, the bridge has six traffic lanes in each direction and measures 67.3 meters across. A regional director for the Guinness Book of World Records present at the opening said that makes it the world’s widest suspension bridge.
The bridge crosses the Nile’s Warraq Island, which has an estimated 100,000 residents, some of whom have protested against planned demolitions on the island and plans to develop it into a “modern residential community”.
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