The suggestion is that they are finally going to make this whole road a dual carriageway. This affects about 200 yards from the corner near the mosque up to the Tourist ferry road junction. If Tayeb is lucky then his side of the road will not be affected:- his mother owns a number of shops outside his compound. Legal owners will be compensated, but that is not much compensation.
Next week I will try to get some pictures of what the street looks like. Maybe Peter will drive up there with his dash-cam on once he has collected it from me?
The authorities are very quick to destroy, but not so quick to create - the Avenue of the Spinxes is still not complete after 6 years, and this work in Gezira al Bairat was first mooted more than 30 years ago. The aim will be trists from the river to the antiquities faster, bypassing the local businesses. More money for the main East Bank hotels and the hotel boats and less footfall on the West Bank. Synical, moi?
And so to today's pictures: a few boring, fuzzy birds, a couple of the upper window in the Migdal gate and another one of the metalwork on the roof garden next to Hapy Habou.