Cairo Transport Authority
First line opened 1910. The network expanded until the 1970s, since when it retrenched to a 24 km network in Helwan to the south of Cairo (feeding metro Line 1) and a 36 km network in Heliopolis to the northeast, comprising four Cairo–Heliopolis routes and some local routes in Heliopolis.
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