Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality announces that in September it will organise several tenders for the construction of new metro lines. The bids were at first announced for July, then they were postponed for August and now they are again re-launched in September.
Hence, the tender for the Basaksehir – Kayasehir metro section was held on September 9th. The section starts from the last station of Kirazli-Basaksehir metro line and ends in Kayasehir.
Kaynarca-Tuzla metro will start from the last station of Kadikoy-Kartal-Kaynarca metro (Kartal-Kaynarca section will open this year). There will be a single stop connection from Kaynarca Merkez to Pendik. The tender is announced for September 19th.
The next tender, for Mahmutbey Bahçeşehir Esenyurt metro line is announced for September 20. This line will be the extension of Kabataş-Mahmutbey metro line and will connect Kabataş and Esenyurt without any interchange.
A new metro line that will cross the new financial center of Turkey connecting Marmaray, Kadikoy-Kartal metro and Uskudar-Cekmekoy metro, will be open for bids on September 21st.
For the Kirazli – Halkali metro section the tender is scheduled for September 22nd. This line will connect the metro hub Kirazli to Marmaray’s last station Halkali.
The tender for Cekmekoy – Sultanbeyli and Hastane – Yenidogan metro lines will be held on Septembr 23rd. The Cekmekoy – Sultanbeyli line starts from the last station of Uskudar – Cekmekoy metro line and ends in Sultanbeyli. These two lines are located on the Asian side of Istanbul.
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. 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.
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