Qatar Rail has announced the completion of tunneling on the Green Line with the breakthrough of tunnel boring machine (TBM) Al Messila at Education City station. The station is the last underground station on the Green Line before moving towards the above ground station Al Riffa.
Tunneling on the Doha Metro Green Line began in October 2014 with six TBMs used to complete the 22 km operational line which has 10 underground stations and one above ground. The Green Line will run for 19 km beneath ground level and 3 km above ground.
Achieving this major milestone for Doha Metro comes less than 10 days after Qatar Rail celebrated completion of tunneling on the northern section of the Red Line. The construction progress at Green Line’s underground station is 57% and overall tunneling of Doha Metro is 87%.
The Al Messila TBM which completed tunneling on the Green Line was launched in January 2015 and passed through Al Rayyan Al Qadeem, Al Shaqab and Qatar National Library before reaching Education City Station. Once service started passengers can take the Green Line starting from Al Mansoura Station in the east to Al Riffa Station in the west, passing through 11 stations. It will take approximately 24 minutes to travel the whole line.
The first phase of the Doha Metro project is expected to be complete at the end of 2019.
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