From Transport to Wedding Venue: Cairo’s Monorail Struggles to Attract Riders

Cairo’s monorail, built at a cost of $4.5 billion with a full-journey ticket of EGP 80 compared with EGP 20 for the entire metro network, faces weak demand that has pushed its management to cut ticket prices by 50% and announce that it will host wedding parties, while economic and urban experts believe that the project contradicts the very idea of the Administrative Capital and lacks real feasibility studies.