Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality’s continuous projects to build new metro lines will ease the city’s ongoing congested traffic problem and commuters will rarely use their vehicles, said Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbaş.
„This line, Üsküdar-Sancaktepe, when completed, will operate as a ‘smart metro line’, without a driver. We use a technology which enables the train to operate on its own being able to stop at metro stops without a driver. This is a new system and only a few places use this technology in the world. Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality is also now one of those using this system,” Topbaş said.
The new metro line which is expected to carry commuters in about a year, will be used by approximately 700,000 passengers on a daily basis.
Efforts to expand the metro line, which was only 45 kilometers long a decade ago, are still underway with new lines planned to reach as far as Beylikdüzü on the European side to Pendik on the Asian side.
Photo: www.sancaktepe.bel.tr
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