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ROADS AND BRIDGES.
Statement showing Expenditure on New Works during the Years 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932 and 1933
Nature of works
I. Roads.
Widening and improvement of the Abukir Road
from Montaza Palace to the beginning of
Rosetta Road
Repairing and widening of road No. 26 from
Benha to Mit Ghamr
J oining-up of the new Sandub bridge at
Mansura
Completion of the road-widening operations
between Giza and Bedrechein and junction
with Sakkara
Improvement of the Pyramids Road from Giza
to the Fayum across the desert, and of the
road running from the Pyramids Road to
Zawiet Abu Mesallem
Construction of the road between Abu Zaabal
Station and the Leper Hospital
Completion and widening of certain parts of the
road from Cairo to Alexandria
Construction of the road from Port Said to
Damietta
Widening of the road from Mit Ghamr ’ to
Mansura, Damietta and Ras el Bar
Widening of the road from Cairo to Luxor as
far as Assiut
Construction, widening and macadamising of
various roads
Total ...
II. Bridges.
Municipal bridges
Reconstruction of various bridges
Reconstruction of the Kasr el Nil bridge
(Khedive Ismail bridge)
Reconstruction of the Benha bridge over the'Nile.
Footways on the Edfina bridge
Construction of various bridges "
Total . . .
1929
£E
9,959
7,167
13,000
12,069
33,020
3L965
6,736
113,916
1,905
27,482
457
459
53,428
83;73i
1930
1931
£E
8,996
10,993
4,962
43,797
6,337
75,085
10,831
18,256
1,205
777
62,289
93,358
£E
2,193
1,986
18,893
i,i43
24,226
4,844
9,661
95,574
91,003
25,000
9,602
193^
235,684
£E
254
3,339
411
4,443
8,447
3,973
9,826
183,127
99,537
3,ooo
1933
£E
3,816
1,701
4,631
893
11,041
299,463
3,886
9,817
37,86o
7,702
316
7,524
67,105
Total
£E
9,959
7,167
2,447
21,996
23,062
6,948
102,865
3,266
9,074
39,195
6,736
232,715
25,439
75,043
3I8,223
199,478
28,316
132,843
779,341
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