TURKEY: Ankara metro line M3 opened on February 12 with a ceremony attended by President Abdullah Gül, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Governor of Ankara Melih Gökçek, Minister of Transport Lütfi Elvan and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
The 15·5 km line starts at Batıkent at the end of line M1 and runs west to OSB Törekent in Sinçan with 10 intermediate stations. It was built by a Spanish-Turkish consortium of Comsa Emte and Açilim Insaat at a cost of TL216m.
TURKEY: Istanbul metro opened the M1B branch of Line M1 June 14, and the first passenger train ran at 15.00. The branch connects Esenler, which was until now on a one-station branch from Otogar, to Kirazlı, the southern terminus of Line M3. There are intermediate stations at Menderes, Üçyüzlü ...
TURKEY: Proposals have been unveiled for the construction of a rail link to Ankara's Esenboga airport, northeast of the capital. On February 13 the Ministry of Transport signed a contract with FS Group's engineering consultancy subsidiary Italferr to develop the project. Under the 12-month contract valued at €1·5m, Italferr will ...
TURKEY: Following a final review of bids, CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive has been confirmed as the winner of a contract to supply 342 metro cars to Ankara. Announcing the 2·5bn yuan contract on August 1, the Chinese company said it would set a precedent which could help it to ...
