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oldbag Member # 9889	posted I just found a reference to Heliopolis overground metro on a map and I know I have seen things that look like trams on my way to the airport. Has anyone got any info on how extensive this network is, how near it gets to the usual metro or other railway system? When does it run, how frequently etc etc?
TravelingWriter Member # 13951	posted All I know is that tram is painfully slow. You would get there faster in a wheel-chair. ha
Tigerlily Member # 3567	posted Oldbag, please if you want to avoid hassle, use a cab to and from the airport.
MK the Most Interlectual Member # 8356	posted quote: Originally posted by TravelingWriter: All I know is that tram is painfully slow. You would get there faster in a wheel-chair. ha HAHAAHHAHAHA! I agree. You might also find out that one of your teeth has gone loose after a ride in one of those.
newcomer Member # 1056	posted The overground metro is quite extensive, not sure how much so as I have only taken it a short distance once. It is very old and rattly, but it is cheap (about 25 piasters) and I know that the one from Nasr City goes to Roxy in Heliopolis. Sorry that's the extent of my overground metro knowledge
oldbag Member # 9889	posted quote: Originally posted by Tigerlily: Oldbag, please if you want to avoid hassle, use a cab to and from the airport. This wasn't about cabs from the airport, I have a possibility for some freelance work when I finally get my butt over there and the company's office has just relocated there. I might need to go there quite a lot so can't afford to cab it all the time. Just for info, I got from the airport to 6th October for 4LE in June - bus from airport to Tahrir = 1LE, + metro to Giza = 1LE + microbus = 2LE. Only cost 2LE to get back but that's because my friends gave me a lift to Giza to get the 2LE bus to the airport
katakata2891981katakata Member # 13537	posted Hi,its impossible to cross all these distance from 6 of october to Heliopolis every day if the company is cool you should relocated around it (traffic is horrible).
Oldbag Member # 9889	posted bump - anyone new know where there might be a map of the tram system?
Egy_mada Member # 11992	posted Oldbag, forget about the heliopolis tram system, you can stay all theday in the tram before you reach your destination. Only oldparents and school students using it to avoid the hassle of microbus and buses. but they start their trip 6am to move within heliopolis area. It is damn slow, anything can stop it (Electricity cut, Car on the line, driver mood ...etc.)
Shanta Qadeema Member # 9889	posted bump - yeh I found it and used it Entrance near Ramses Station for a tram to Heliopolis Roxy. Not sure where else it goes, or if there is more than one destination. Further investigations to be undertaken It takes 15 mins from Ramses to Roxy and cost 25pst.
cbrbddd Member # 3891	posted Yeah, OB!!! I salute your persistence in finding out all these things. Now you will need to write a book!