Mahmutbey-Mecidiyeköy metro will open in 2017

Mahmutbey-Mecidiyeköy metro will be opened in 2017: 3 tunnel digging machines have started work on the Mahmutbey-Mecidiyeköy metro line. The metro line, which continues in 19 different construction sites, will carry 150 thousand passengers per hour.

Kabataşstarting from HalkalıWork continues on Mahmutbey - Mecidiyeköy metro, which is the first stage of the metro line that will extend to. In the Yeni Mahalle construction site, which was built as the largest station of the metro line, 2 tunnel digging machines, called Lovat and Terratec, started their work last month. This week, a new TBM (tunnel digging machine) will begin excavation work in the opposite direction at the same station.

Digging 12 meters per day

This machine, called Herrenknecht, will go down to the 45 meter. Approximately 100 meters long, these machines can dig 12 meters per day. With the 6 meter diameter, the machines that will go underground have been brought specially from abroad. The Mahmutbey-Mecidiyeköy subway, where the excavations are in progress, will pass through Şişli, Kağıthane, Eyüp, Gaziosmanpaşa, Esenler and Bağcılar districts. The metro line has the capacity to carry around 150 thousand people per hour. The metro stations and tunnels of the line, which will start to serve in the first months of 2017, are built to withstand the earthquake of magnitude 7. Works for 19 separate construction site for Metro line are continuing.

Mecidiyeköy-Mahmutbey 26 minutes

Initially KabataşAfter moving from Mecidiyeköy, it was decided to build the subway line, which was planned to extend to Mahmutbey, in 3 stages. As the second stage to the first stage Mecidiyeköy line Kabataş extension added. Then, as the third stage, Mahmutbey- Mecidiyeköy subway, Bahçeşehir-Mahmutbey-Mecidiyeköy-Beşiktaş-Kabataş was planned. The metro line that will start from Mecidiyeköy will extend to Çağlayan, Kağıthane, Nurtepe, Alibeyköy, Yeşilpınar, Veysel Karani, Akşemsettin, Kazım Karabekir, Yeni Mahalle, Karadeniz Mahallesi, Tekstilkent, Yüzyıl, Göztepe Mahallesi, Mahmutbey.