/ 19 April 1999

NILE SUBWAY OPENED

EGYPTIAN President Hosni Mubarak inaugurated the first subway line beneath the Nile River on Sunday. Cairo started expanding an underground commuter railway a decade ago to relieve traffic congestion and has just finished phase three. The third portion of the city’s second metro line links Sadat station in central Tahrir Square, site of the Nile Hilton and famed Egyptian Museum, to Cairo University — a trip of about 5km.