New street-lighting poles on Moharram Bek, Omar Lotfy and in El Hadara El Qibliya

In August 2026 the district’s electricity department carried out work under the public-lighting investment plan, including 51 new poles with 100 W LED lamps on Moharram Bek tram street from Misr Station to El Rosafa (3 August) and foundations cast for 47 new poles on the same street (9 August).

On 16 August power was switched on to 85 new poles on Omar Lotfy Street, from Suez Canal Street to Ibn El Barizi in El Ibrahimia, and on 18 August to 70 arms with 150 W LED lamps in the Pharaohs block of the Latin Quarter. A further 183 LED arms were installed to light El Hadara El Qibliya and the streets off the Mahmoudiya (19 August).

Alongside the new schemes, maintenance covered cable insulation, the decorative poles on the Corniche median, lamps around the Ophthalmology Hospital, the Sadat Academy and St Mark’s Cathedral, streets in El Shatby, and six floodlights repaired and relit on Ibn Mamati and Ibn Dinar streets in Gheit El Saidi after residents’ complaints.

Source: the electricity department’s photographic report for August 2026, part of the statement sent to the deputy governor on 4 October 2026.