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- - - - road transportation has required a high level of investment as it's city has grown in size and population
        
        seven bridges now span the river nile
        
        downtown expressways and lesser flyovers bypass congested areas and and new roads knit outlying suburbs into the urban areas
- - - - this vast cemetery has been a burial place for cairo for a millenium
        
        However much of the more affluent dead were buried in houses which is where many poor people have now made their home
        
        this is because of a severe shortage of available and affordable housing near the city
        
        this has lead to a large population of 500,000 people occupying this are with little services and basic amenities like water, electricity and proper plumbing and sanitation, however some have been able to rig temporary electricity and lighting inside the tombs
  - - - a 2010 UN report stated that although the new cities outside of cairo had reduced the limitation of housing in cairo it had done little to improve conditions in the area, and access to services, as these cities lack the transport and job opportunities available in the big city