工人在2022年10月13日搬运埃及开罗最近被砍伐的树枝。250大道是一条穿过开罗的深绿色带。其中一些树龄超过100年。各种尺寸的榕树、五月份开满红花的凤凰木以及巨大的橡胶树沿着一条旧铁路线生长，形成一条隧道，缓慢行驶的火车从中穿过，汽笛声如同雾号般有力。
Workers move recently cut tree branches in Cairo, Egypt, on October 13, 2022. Avenue 250 is a dark green line cutting through Cairo. Some of its trees are more than 100 years old. Ficus trees of every size, flame trees ablaze with red flowers in May and enormous rubber trees have grown along an old railway line, forming a tunnel through which slow-moving trains pass, sounding whistles as powerful as foghorns.
在这条意外形成的绿色走廊旁，无数植物摊贩、花盆商贩和园艺工具商贩在树荫下摆摊，以高价向麦迪的居民出售商品——麦迪是非洲人口最稠密城市中的一片绿洲，该城市拥有超过2300万居民。
Alongside this accidental green corridor, countless plant sellers, flowerpot vendors and gardening tool merchants set up shop in the shade, selling their wares at high prices to the residents of Maadi – an oasis of greenery in Africa's most populous city, with more than 23 million inhabitants.
2021年6月，埃及政府宣布计划夷平整片区域，以修建一条新道路——阿尔及利亚轴线，该道路设计为穿过开罗南部。植物摊贩被命令撤离。似乎没有什么能阻止自2013年起由专制领导人阿卜杜勒·法塔赫·塞西领导的新政权推进此项目。然而，一场得到埃及名人支持的地方性抗议阻止了推土机。此后，该项目一直处于暂停状态，尽管尚未正式宣布放弃。
In June 2021, the Egyptian government announced plans to raze the entire area to create a new thoroughfare, the Axis of Algeria, designed to run across southern Cairo. The plant sellers were ordered to evacuate. Nothing seemed capable of stopping the new regime, led by autocratic Abdel Fattah el-Sissi since 2013, from carrying out this project. Yet a local protest, backed by Egyptian celebrities, halted the bulldozers. Since then, the project has been suspended, though not officially abandoned.