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Kinki Sharyo #6006
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- dvigar (195.93.21.*) (2010-02-28 15:35:42.214348)
I don't know the answer - Helwan has heavy industry and the tram line connects to the housing areas - a good recipe for success. Maybe increasing car ownership and cheap minibuses everywhere just means no passengers any more.
Look - Egypt isn't exactly the richest country in the world... The tram was built to keep the people happy or to give cash to the construction company that belongs to someone in the president's family. But after that the tram becomes a constant pain in the budget - at 25 piastre (0.13PLN) a ride even if people were hanging out of the doors on every run you would still need a hefty subsidy. And - especially in a developing country public transport is not exactly top priority. So they keep the company operational, pay the workers so they don't get laid off and complain, and run the system like they do until it falls apart.
- dvigar (195.93.21.*) (2010-02-28 16:07:59.143357)
Nicely put - politics normally pay a part in such things. But I think you will agree, straphan, that Helwan was an amazing experience! I still wonder, though, how such an asset can be almost totally neglected and destroyed.....when we went there, we didn't even expect to find anything running.
Believe me - I was wondering why the hell we were walking up that street when you could see nothing ran to the terminus for ages, but boy am I thankful we kept going... As for the asset - I think they just have better things to spend money on, end of story. Especially when so many people use the minivans which take just a fraction of the time it takes for the tram to go. Not to mention - I could see in Alexandria that the Kinki-Sharyo vehicles were relatively fast if they wanted to be, but with regard to Helwan I doubt that even when the tracks were new the tram actually went much faster than it did when we were there...
- Fady (41.206.157.*) (2011-11-09 22:20:38.947013)
You guys are amazing! I've been trying to learn more about the Helwan tram network (I didn't even know it existed until fairly recently). I went to the depot too and I took photos from outside (I didn't ask to get in - I didn't think they'd let me in anyway) and had to get back by foot. Sadly, 2 days ago someone told me the network completely ceased operation after the January 25th revolution. Too bad you didn't get inside the depot.
It's also worth mentioning that now a few city cars (trams) are painted in Metro livery and do routes to Ramses sq. (mainly the Abdel Aziz Fahmy route.)
Anyway, thanks for the pics! 
@Fady & Straszny: that is sad news indeed (especially for Straszny & the gang that went to visit), but I'm not too surprised - even in 2010 there was hardly anything running and the number of passengers was pretty much zero. I can only hope once Egypt sorts out its more important issues the powers that be will start thinking about public transport seriously...
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