Minister of Transport Kamel El Wazir reviewed on Sunday, August 30, 2026, the state’s comprehensive plan to finalize the modern public transportation system and integrate its projects into a safe, sustainable and interconnected network to better serve people. The minister made the remarks during an inspection tour of line 1 of the electric high-speed train network, within the framework of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s directives to finalize the modern public transportation projects according to the timetable.
The minister said that government has begun working on the projects in 2019 as part of a plan to establish a nationwide green, sustainable and environmentally friendly mass transit network. Wazir said the mass transit system rests on three main pillars: intercity transport using railways, electric high-speed trains and buses; urban transport within major cities and linking modern modes of transport with feeder lines connecting residential communities.
Regarding the railway network, the minister said the existing network stretches for about 10,000 km and is being developed and upgraded, including the modernization of signaling systems. Around 400 km of new railway lines are also being added to serve major industrial zones in 10th of Ramadan, Sixth of October, Sadat and Borg El Arab cities, which previously lacked railway services for transporting workers, raw materials and finished products to markets and export ports.
About 900 trains operate daily on the railway network, using around 1,000 locomotives and approximately 4,000 carriages, Wazir said. The network currently carries between 1.1 million and 1.2 million passengers a day, with a target of reaching 1.5 million daily passengers by 2030, the minister added.
The minister said the electric high-speed train network will have a total length of 2,250 km. The first three lines, totaling 2,000 km, are currently under construction. They include the first line from Ain Sokhna to Matrouh via Cairo and Alexandria; the second from October to Abu Simbel via Upper Egypt stations; and the third from Qena to Safaga and Hurghada.
A fourth line, stretching 250 km from Port Said to Alexandria, will be implemented in partnership with the private sector. Work on the second high-speed train line is also progressing, the minister said. Once the three lines are operational, they are expected to carry 2.5 million passengers daily, bringing the combined passenger capacity of the railway and electric high-speed train networks to about 4 million passengers a day by 2030.
As for the intercity bus transport, El-Wazir said that the Transport Ministry’s four companies — East Delta, West and Central Delta, Upper Egypt and Super Jet — operate around 2,000 buses.