Maadi Road 9 (Shara Tisa) new traffic chaos

On this date of writing, you no longer turn left at McDonalds coming down RD 9 and you cannot enter RD 9 from Road 87 going north towards Metro station. Street blocked for some kind of construction at McDonalds. I was watching all this last evening and chaos is understatement. Road 9 is now a one way street all the way to road 87. The taxis can no longer come from east on Rd87 to take passengers to Metro station.

Now there is on quirk to all this. If you drive off RD 87 and take St 10 towards McDonalds, you will find a McDonald Security guard, so if you want to have take out from McDonalds, he will let you in the drive entrance to order. For time being anyway.
Also on RD 85 excavation has started to install huge pipes undergorund and they tell me route is towards RD9. So look out for much mor chaos in future.
Two other changes on Rd 9 - Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf are now open with large open air garden in back. Also Etisilat has brand new office on corner adjacent to Cilratro in RD9 (was a mensware clothing store since I've here), so lots of money must be changing hands for this prime property. Now one can find Mobilnil, Rawa Vodaphone somewhat), Etisilat and another mobile store other side of Etisilat around corner - all very close to each other at top of Road 9.

Lets see how thsi all plays out but for now driver beware of restrictions in the area.