More Cairo Points to be Doled Out

Cairo has done well this past week. An international arrival hall with couches last Saturday. A new sidewalk the other day. What's next for this great city?

My trek to and from the metro station usually involves traversing a broken sidewalk for about 50 metres. That is until now.

I noticed the other day that a portion of the broken potted tiles had been replaced by new ones. The next day, further work was done. Then, this morning, the work was complete. All that is left are piles of the old tiles waiting to be picked up.

Two things came to mind:

1. How important did this stretch of sidewalk have to be to get priority over the city's other failing infrastructure projects?

2. How long ago did this sidewalk enter the infrastructure project queue to only get done now?

 

Some things to ponder over shisha, I suppose.