The Execution of Upper Egypt - Red Sea Road , which connects three major Upper Egypt Governorates, Assiut, Sohag and Qena with Red Sea Governorate, has been implemented in fulfillment of president Mubarak ambitious electoral agenda to give absolute priority for the development and establishment of essential and infrastructure projects in Upper Egypt.

Description of the Road

The total length of the road is 412 km and comprises the following major access roads:

Actually, the construction of this road represent an unprecedented epic ,where engineers ,technicians and labors of Nasr General Contracting Co. [Hassan Mohamed Allam ] have demonstrated great dedication , honesty and outstanding performance, they worked day and night for thirty months in a very difficult terrain conditions and harsh environment and adverse climate ,they subdued all difficulties and tamed the high mountains in Red Sea and Sohag Height which necessitated the blasting of more than 4 cubic millions of hard rock

The Number of workers participated in construction of the road either directly or indirectly has reached about 20000 workers

The amount of excavation and filling which have been executed in the first phase of the road is 45 million cubic meters it is more than the amount executed in the High Dam project.

Total cost of first phase of the road is about 1.6 billion Egyptian pounds, it will be handed over at the end of January 2010 and then the work will commence in extending the road to become a dual carriage way

Along the total length of the road and its access roads provisions were made to secure the road against the heavy and devastating floods , many pipe [ 22 kilometers ] and box culverts were placed in the designated locations ,on the 17th of January , heavy floods hit Upper Egypt , the culverts worked perfectly letting flood water pass safely through its openings without single harm , the following video taken on that day gives evidence for the successful engineered design

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