Cairo Metro Line 4 works link the Grand Egyptian Museum with Old Cairo

Cairo Metro Line 4 is taking shape as a new cross-city route connecting the Grand Egyptian Museum area with Fustat in Old Cairo, according to a Cairo Governorate report on an inspection of the project. The first phase is intended to link 6th of October City with Fustat Station, giving residents and visitors a future rail connection across some of the capital’s busiest western and historic districts.

The report says the transport minister reviewed the progress of El-Malek El-Saleh Station as well as construction at the other stations in the first phase. The work is being carried out by Egyptian companies under the supervision of an international consultancy office. For people who live near the route, that means the project is still a construction story rather than a service announcement: the line is not being presented as open for passengers, and existing metro and road journeys remain the practical option for now.

Tunnelling is a central part of the current phase. The Cairo Governorate account describes two tunnels for the first section, one in each direction, and says four tunnel-boring machines are being used. At the time of the inspection, one machine had reached the Grand Egyptian Museum Station, another had reached Remaya Station, a third was heading towards Madkour Station and the fourth towards Talbiya Station. These are project milestones, not an operating timetable, so commuters should treat them as progress markers rather than a promise of a particular opening day.

The first phase is planned as a route through places that serve different kinds of Cairo travel. The Grand Egyptian Museum and the Pyramids area are major visitor destinations, while Giza, El-Malek El-Saleh and Fustat are established parts of the metropolitan transport network. A rail connection between them could eventually make museum visits, work trips and journeys to historic Cairo easier to combine, but the benefit will arrive only after the civil works, systems, testing and safety approvals are complete.

For now, the useful takeaway is that Line 4 remains an active infrastructure project with work visible at stations and underground. Residents planning a trip should continue checking current Cairo Metro and transport information rather than relying on construction maps. The route’s eventual value will be measured not only by its stations, but by how reliably it connects western Cairo, the museum district and Old Cairo with the rest of the network.