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 No vision - Other projects were released at the Conference without any concrete strategy –
need a published strategy for investors.
A number of potential barriers to Investment were identified during the meetings including:
 Bureaucracy – the MoI are trying to address this by acting as the Investors Agent.
 Licensing issues.
 Procedural issues – these need to be simplified by for example:
o Create a new regulatory framework and enable one authority to take the lead on a
project and give them a role as a partner and not just the regulator.
o Give the lead authority a share in the project - up to a maximum of 20% to 24%. MoH
have a revenue sharing mechanism in place for the projects they lead on.
o 6th of October City Dry Port is PPP. Other projects will be direct bidding - could have
limited number of invited tenderers.
4.2.9. Health
Air and noise pollution: Mobile source air pollution in Cairo is serious both with regard to
particulate matter as well as noxious chemicals. Noise levels are high and aggravated by very old large
proportion of the car and taxi fleet. Vehicle inspections that should limit exhaust gas pollution are
mostly ineffective. (Source World bank 2006).
Physical Activity: There are no NMT policies in place in Cairo, little if no specific provision for
pedestrians and cyclists and the accident rate for pedestrians is very high. Despite this walking levels
in Cairo are very high. From the site visits cycle use is almost non-existent.
4.2.10. Climate Change
The transport sector is responsible for about 28 % of the final energy consumption in Egypt and 25 %
of energy related CO2 emissions, and is the fastest growing source of CO2 emissions in the country. The
total amount of GHG emissions from the transport sector in Egypt is estimated at 29 million tons of
CO2 (UNDP Sustainable Transport Project for Egypt).
4.2.11. Social exclusion
4.2.11.1. Ageing population
To date, there was no data available about the mobility pattern of this group nor was this specifically
accounted in for in the earlier Transport master plans which can explain the absence of special policies
and facilities for this group in the transport sector. From the site observations and meetings no
specific provision has been made for older people/disabled people. It is understood that the new
Metro line construction includes for specific disabled people, provision (eg ramps, lifts etc). However,
the existing Metro system has no provision and as such the new provision does little to allow disabled
people to access the city centre. From the meetings there is also an issue regarding institutional
capacity building on this particular issue.
4.2.11.2. Gender
No specific data was made available on travel patterns formales and females. Given the double burden
of earning a living and caring for the family, the time and reliability of transport systems is very
important to women. Sexual harassment of women on public transport systems was raised by those
met but no data is available to substantiate this. On the public transport systems no special
compartments for women are provided.
4.2.11.3. Urban poor