Passenger services began the following day on Line T2, which runs for 15km from Ain Diab in the west to Sidi Bernoussi in the east via Casablanca city centre.
The line uses the 7.5km former Line T1 branch from Ain Diab Plage to Abdelmoumen before continuing to Sidi Bernoussi on a new 15km alignment via Avenue 2 Mars, Boulevard Grand Ceinture, Place de la Préfecture de Ain Sebaa and Boulevard Abi Der El Ghifari.
Line T2 serves 33 stations, including interchanges with Line T1 at Abdelmoumen-Anoual and Ibn Tachfine-Mdarka.
Services are operated by a fleet of 50 32m-long Alstom Citadis LRVs running in pairs. Sixteen pairs are available for the initial phase of operations, with services operating at 6-9 minute headways in the peak.
The Dirhams 3.78bn ($US 390m) project included the construction of a new LRV maintenance depot at Sidi Bernoussi.
RATP Dev operates both lines T1 and T2 under a 12-year contract awarded by Casa Transport in 2017.
Two further lines are planned: Line T3 will run for 14km from Salmia to Casa-Port, while the 12km Line T4 will link Attacharouk with Mers Sultan. All four lines will be fed by two new bus rapid transit lines totalling 22km.
The completion of these lines will take the Casablanca light rail network to 73km by 2022.
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