Expanding metro lines, light rail should be national priority -Werr

Expanding metro lines and light rail is a mega-project that should command priority above all, Patrick Werr writes in The National. “The lack of local public transport should be put at the level of a national emergency: he inability to move efficiently around cities is stifling economic growth, generating the destruction of vast tracts of agricultural land and historic buildings and causing severe hardship,” Werr writes. He says the expansion is needed urgently not just in Cairo, but in the larger provincial towns throughout the country as well.