TURKEY: Construction of the first metro line in Gebze started at Cumhuriyet Meydanı on September 29.
The 15·7 km driverless line will link Gebze and Darıca, serving 12 stations. Construction is expected be completed in early 2023 at an estimated cost of TL2·8bn.
It is envisaged that services would run every 90 sec, offering an end-to-end journey time of 19 min. Four-car trainsets are to be used, with a capacity of 1 080 passengers.
TURKEY: Bozankaya has delivered the first of seven domestically-developed four-car driverless trainsets for the Gebze metro. It was handed over on September 1 in the presence of Minister of Transport & Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu, who described it as the ‘first Turkish driverless metro train’, with 63% ...
TURKEY: Tunnelling for the 15·7 km Gebze metro was officially launched by Minister of Transport & Infrastructure Adil Karaismailoğlu on June 14. The first section of the line is scheduled to open by the end of 2023. The line in Kocaeli province to the southeast of ...
Single metro line under construction. On September 29 2018 Kocaeli Municipality east of Istanbul began construction of a driverless metro, with tunnelling begun on June 14 2021. The line will run in tunnel from Darıca on the Gulf of Izmit northeast to Gebze mainline station (terminus of Marmaray services) and ...
