Progress in Cairo no.2

This is a new post in the topic of progress in Cairo - changes and innovation in this big city.
It's the follow-up on the first article I wrote about it in September 2015.

And it's about the Cairo metro system once again. The other day I took the metro to Downtown and as I was waiting in the station for the appriaching train I noticed something compleatly new: TV-screens!
Yes, there were 2 screens on each side of the station, 4 in total, they were hanged high under the ceiling and were showing photos of some men. I could not really understand who they were or what was their importance, but I will do some investigation and let you know. It very innovative for Egypt. I was wondering if it could be used for train times, but no point for that in Cairo and "Cairo time":)

Second news from the metro is that now every perron in each station has a security police. They look bored and have no chairs to sit on, but it is a great effort to offer some kind of protection in case of public trouble.

Last but not least there is another quite impressive security measure in the stations for about half a year

An illustrative photos from internet

now: bag x-ray scanners! Just like in airports, stand in line to have a machine scan your bag for potential…something. The good side of it is extra security (Cairo has experienced some bomb explosions in metro system in past years), but the bad side is it creates terrible traffic in the metro entrance and often I find myself crammed in between people who I normally try to distance myself from.
When I first saw the long line waiting to scan and enter the metro, I played dirty and quickly ran in from the other side, the exit side. Noone caught me. But NOW! They learnt a lesson with people like me and have placed another standing security police to the exit-side of the tunnel.
I even found a way out of this one:) There are usually many entry tunnels to the metro and I now take the small side entries, not the big main one. Less people and shorter scan-lines.
Any way I think all of these are great efforts to organize the city more.

So let's see what kinf of progress is coming up next, stay tuned!