IRJ at the CBTC World Congress in Paris: Fitting out has started on the 22km metro line being built from Kadikoy to Kartal on the Asian side of Istanbul. Demonstration operation is planned to begin on a 4km section in May 2011 with the entire line to open on December 31 2011.
IRJ at the CBTC World Congress in Paris: Fitting out has started on the 22km metro line being built from Kadikoy to Kartal on the Asian side of Istanbul. Demonstration operation is planned to begin on a 4km section in May 2011 with the entire line to open on December 31 2011.
The line will have 16 stations and will be entirely underground including the depot. Thales is supplying a CBTC system based on architecture used on light metro lines in Vancouver which will deliver a design capacity of 70,000 passengers/h. The system is designed for driverless operation with trains running at 90-second headways.
Construction is also underway on a 3.4km extension to Kaynarca, which has increased the cost of the project from Euros 750 million to just over Euros 900 million.
