Advanced Transport Bus in Cairo: Fact or Fiction?

Users and pages on social media have circulated a video of a huge and advanced transport bus, dubbed “an advanced bus on Cairo’s ring road.”

The video appears to show a large shared transport vehicle on a highway, with a caption, “Trying shuttle buses soon… Goodbye microbuses at Ring.”

The video is claimed to be from a frequency bus in Cairo

The post received thousands of shares and views from various Egyptian pages on social networking sites in light of the authority’s implementation of road, train and bridge projects over the years.

Many of these large projects are viewed positively in terms of improving roads, transport networks, bridges and the highway sector, but they are also the subject of criticism from experts who believe they are draining state budgets and doubling a country’s debt. Faced with a stifling economic crisis.

In 2022, Egyptian authorities launched the “Frequent Bus” project on Cairo’s ring road as an alternative to microbuses.

“Frequency Bus” project in Cairo. Archive

But the reality of the video showed that it was filmed in an Arab country other than Egypt.

Search guide for still shots from video Its original version published on the TikTok website, last July, noted that it was taken in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the Emirates.

and in copy Others are prominently displayed on buses, with drawings depicting the Emirati capital’s most prominent landmarks and writing in Arabic and English referring to “mass transit system” or “automated rapid transit” based on buses that run through the transit. System without railways in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.

Road signs indicating “Abu Dhabi Marina” and “Emirates Palace” are also seen in the video.