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Cairo Transportation Authority

is the operator of mass transit within Cairo

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2023
Entity authorityQ1025977 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cairo Transport Authority (CTA) is the operator of mass transit within Cairo, and the largest operator in Egypt.

CTA operates buses, ferries and river buses. Through its subsidiary Greater Cairo Bus Company (GCBC) it operates buses and minibuses, and is progressively converting its buses from diesel to low-emission CNG engines under the Cairo Air Improvement Project.

CTA operates more than 3,000 buses, 950 minibuses and 40 Nile ferries. With more than 37,000 employees, it offers transport services to more than 3.5 million riders a day.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Cairo Transportation Authority” is is the operator of mass transit within Cairo. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Cairo, Transportation and Authority, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 85-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976. For this dossier, Cairo, Transportation and Authority is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “is the operator of mass transit within Cairo” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q1025977. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cairo Transportation Authority” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.