TURKEY: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Mayor Kadir Topbaş attended the opening of Istanbul metro’s Line M6 at 17.00 on April 19.
The 3·3 km line runs east from Levent station on Line M2 to Boğaziçi Üniversitesi/Rumeli Hisarüstü with two intermediate stations. The line has an initial capacity of 8 100 passengers/h per direction.
The latest opening forms part of a plan to expand the Istanbul metro and tram network to 430 km by 2019.
TURKEY: Hyundai Rotem has been selected to supply 17 four-car metro trainsets to operate Istanbul Line M2 under a €77·5m contract. The Korean company’s bid was selected by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality ahead of a lowed priced offer from CNR Changchun. The cars are to be built in Adana by ...
TURKEY: Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu attended the opening of Istanbul metro’s latest extension on November 9. The southeastern extension of light metro line M1 from Aksaray to Yenikapı is 700 m long. Interchange is provided at Yenikapı with metro line M2 and Marmaray suburban services. Services from Yenikapı ...
TURKEY: A 3·5 km extension of Istanbul metro line M2 from Sishane to Yenikapi including the Haliç metro bridge across the Golden Horn was opened by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Febraury 15. The US$671m extension connects the two parts of the European side of the city. There are ...
