Marmaray moving at a snail’s pace
Construction works at Marmaray, which almost stopped for last 2 years, had restarted, but is progressing very slowly.
Construction works at Marmaray, which almost stopped for last 2 years, had restarted, but is progressing very slowly.
Istanbul Metro started survey about “woman-only-cars”.
Marmaray project, which stopped for 2 years, seems to progress fast this year. Transport Ministry allocates TL 1.4bn (€ 0.4bn) for the project.
Antalya’s new tram line to Expo 2016 will start service during Expo 2016 which is going to start next month.
Tender of 14 new trams for Eskisehir is cancelled.
The legal problems which stopped Baskentray project since 2012 has been solved.
Target date for commission is announced as 1st quarter of 2017 in Kocaeli Tram Project.
Eskisehir announced a tender for 14 new tram sets.
Bozankaya’s first set of 30-tram-sets order produced for Kayseri will soon start test drives on rail.
Hyundai Rotem remains the only company in the tender for 300 metro cars of Kabatas-Mecidiyekoy-Mahmutbey Metro line under construction.
Four new Silkworm trams were delivered to Bursa Metropolitan Municipality.
Extension of Izmir’s suburban service Izban to Torbali opened today.
The ridership in Marmaray hits another record in December 2015, and reached 6 mn passengers.
Ridership in metro, tram and cable car in Istanbul increases by 17% in 2015, compared with previous year.
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality announced raise in public transport fares.