Bridge to the apartment: a highway is being built in Cairo, passing half a meter from the windows of residents of high-rise buildings (5 photos)

In Cairo, the authorities are building a new road, while the height of the flyovers reaches the 5th floor of the houses along the road. It would seem - well what? But the fact is that from the balconies of these houses you can easily go out to the track under construction, and the lower floors were hidden from the sun.





12 km section of new highway called Teraet Al-Zomor is being built right in the middle of high-rise buildings, people, of course, complain, but authorities are relentless. Moreover, they promise to demolish all these houses, because, as it turns out, they were all built illegally.



By the way, we are talking about the Giza region, which has essentially merged with Cairo, becoming part of the capital, in which more than 10 million officially live residents.





And unofficially, according to various estimates, about more the same number of people. Houses, as we see, are also not fully built officially - but the scope is impressive, because we are not talking about one or two buildings, about huge quarters.



Of course, the web is already joking that the residents of these houses will be able to open shops and cafes for motorists in their apartments, but This is, of course, laughter through tears. The authorities allocated about $16 million to relocate the people living here, thereby recognizing that their guilt in this story is obvious.



The amount seems significant, but the cost of building a new road is more than 300 million dollars, so it is clear which is easier "throw" money on residents than to cancel construction.