The scope, route, stops, connections and history of Halic tram (Eminonu-Alibeykoy) under construction at Istanbul:
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Project overview
- Owner: Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
- Contractor: Dogus Insaat
- Contract duration: 780 days
- Contract deadline: 2019
- Contract value: € 153 mn
Route

Stops/connections
Eminonu (Marmaray, Bagcilar-Kabatas tram and ferries) – Kucukpazar (Yenikapi-Haciosman metro) – Cibali – Fener – Balat – Ayvansaray – Feshane – Eyup Teleferik (Piyer Loti cable car) – Devlet Hastanesi – Silahtaraga Mahallesi – Sakarya Mahallesi – Alibeykoy Merkez – Alibeykoy (Kabatas-Mahmutbey metro) – Alibeykoy Cep Otogari (bus station)
Project details
The 10 km long catenary-free tram line starting from Eminonu, following Golden Horn and ending at Alibeykoy.
- Line length: 10.1 km
- Travel time: 30 min
- 114k daily ridership
Rolling Stock
30 rail cars (Durmazlar)
Cover photo: İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi ©
Categories: Urban Transport
Why do they not connect the 5 to the 1 as half of the trams ‘1’ stop at Eminönü? Now to go to Marmaray people from 5 will have to cross the traffic of the bridge and change for 1 stop to tram 1… Make 5 Aksaray (or Bağcilar) – Alibeyköy and 1 Kabataş – Bağcilar and no more trams terminating at Eminönü
T1 has a very heavy traffic, which would prevent T5 to enter to line until Sirkeci. And that would need a huge change in road traffic between first stop of T5 and Eminonu stop of T1. Though the distance between Marmaray and T5 is not tiring, I guess, in long term, they’ll try to do what you said..
Thank you for the response 🙂
I hope they will do it