You really think any Arab government care an iota about any citizen who isn't fabulously rich?

And somewhere in the article, there's a small sentence about how the buildings are to be demolished, making this pure click bait.

Can us imagine how many people are going to throw s**t off their balconies onto the road! Next come the fencing up all of these apartment buildings.

The great engineers who planed the Pyramids are going to raise from their Graves will venge these idiots.

wow .. mankind is really messed up

And this is is how Midgar got started...

toot toot, beep beep - your apartment is now part of the street

This is disgusting. I grew up 1.5 blocks away from the New England Thruway, in the 60's and during the spring and summer, the fumes from the cars and eighteen-wheelers were terrible, also the black soot left a coating on everything including our lungs. I can just imagine what the rates of Asthma and COPD are going to be.

A rapidly increasing population together with rapid modernization no doubt causes a lot of planning problems, together with some weird "solutions". In 100, one hundred years, one century, the population of Egypt has grown by 90 million people. In 1920, the number of Egyptians was 12 million, by 1950 the population reached 20 million and the current population of Egypt is 102,062,314 as of Wednesday, May 13, 2020, the increase is now at the rate of one child every 15 seconds. (https://thearabweekly.com/egypts-population-predicament) (https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/egypt-population/)

Ancient Egypt has left us marvels of architecture! and here is the answer of contemporary Egypt

all these houses are build illegally with the policy of the fait accompli . they refused all ways of giving away

This is the dumbest thing. You are supposed to demolish the buildings first. Not after you built the road. The building will definitely reck the freeway.

What were they thinking?!?! I'd absolutely hate to live in one of those apartments. What a SHAME!!!

Egyptians been the hostile type...look what they did to the Israelites

In Toronto they built the condos a ft away from the Gardiner Expressway. The opposite of this.

Motorway in the city? Why? Build metro line (only 20-25 feet deep, fast, cheap) or BRT! walk and bike on the street!

In the 1950s&60s the Interstate highway system was originally designed to go right through the middle of cities. Of course the pathways were right through the poorest areas. Only because of the Freeway Revolt* in 1960 were they redesigned to include the loops that we now see. No though was given to the impact it might have. (*started by my landlord, his wife, an their friends in San Francisco and they were responsible for the world's first environmental impact reviews)

This in unimaginable I thought it was a joke this is crazy!!

I get the problem. The buildings were illegally built. The government must have a talked with the owner of those buildings but in stubborn cases, they refuse to demolished it since many residents will be furios cause they cannot just transfer to another place right away and many reasons and so on. So the government, given that they have talked already, and still refuse, must be so furious too. So they build the highway to make people go away on their own. Who will last long in this kind of situation.

That must be sector 7 slums

"it worked in simcity..." :V

I'm wondering how the first car that wrecks off the side of the highway is going to impact the neighborhoods.

Looking in to The Ancient History of Egypt and the fabulous structures of Masterpiece, I developed a very high regard towards Egyptians and their talent and proficiency in building those monuments. Bur how come this generation is other way round.

"They should've stuck to Pyramids" lmao

Reminds me the SpongeBob episode spongeBob's last stand, but here we have to do with awful, old and dangerous block appartments

The "Minhocão" in São Paulo.... just Google it...