Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) President Ekrem İmamoğluparticipated in the rail welding ceremony held for Ataköy-İkitelli Metro, which will be integrated with 4 different metro lines operating in the city and Marmaray. Speaking in the tunnel after the event held at İkitelli Sanayi Metro Station, İmamoğlu stated that the line will start to serve with partial sections in 2021, and said, “I hope that in the first quarter of 2022, we will put this entire line into service and will, as İBB, deliver an important line with a connection to Marmaray to the people of Istanbul. We will earn,” he said.
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) President Ekrem İmamoğluparticipated in the rail welding ceremony held for Ataköy-İkitelli Metro, which will be integrated with 5 different metro lines operating in the city. İmamoğlu, who attended the ceremony held at İkitelli Sanayi Metro Station on the Başakşehir-Olympic-Kirazlı Metro Line, was given the IMM President Advisor and SözcüSü Murat Ongun, Metro Inc. General Manager Özgür Soy and İBB Rail Systems Department Head Pelin Alpkökin were accompanied. In the tunnel to be welded, Imamoglu received information about the works from Alpkökin and contractor company officials. İmamoğlu, who performed rail welding by wearing special gloves and glasses, made his evaluations about the line in the tunnel. Imamoglu said:
“WE LOVE THIS DEPTH”
“We love this depth. Because now it means that the job is over. We are happy too. It means that the road is halfway, even about to end. Our Ataköy-İkitelli line, where we are at the rail welding ceremony today, is a valuable line for us. Especially with the İkitelli stop that we are connecting now, we are connecting the two lines, and with the 3 stations here, I hope we will put it into service next year. We care about this aspect. We are in an intensive study. It will carry 36 thousand passengers in one direction. In this busy area, especially our working workers are very much. Therefore, this will be an effective line. There were ground difficulties; but here both my colleagues and our contractor company have conducted a very rigorous process and we have overcome the problems related to that ground. Tunnel boring machine (TBM) fulfills its last duties in this line; He will be finished by June. After that, we will focus on electromechanical works. In all these aspects, we activate the process with the financing conditions of our contractor company, where we act very effectively and walk the road, and with the belief of my travel mates in this process. Partial commissioning will also provide a separate motivation here. In the first quarter of 2022, I hope that by putting this whole line into operation, we will have brought an important line that is also connected with Marmaray to the people of Istanbul as İBB. ”
There will be 5 stations that will pass from 11 districts
When Ataköy-Basın Ekspress-İkitelli Metro Line is completed, with the Olympic-Ikitelli Industrial section of Başakşehir-Olimpiyat-Kirazlı Metro Line at İkitelli Industrial Station; At Mehmet Akif Station Kabataş-Mahmutbey-Esenyurt Metro Line; Yenikapı-Kirazlı- at Mimar Sinan StationHalkalı It will be integrated with the Metro Line and Marmaray Line at Ataköy Station. On the 13,5 kilometers long line; There will be 11 stations within the borders of Bakırköy, Bahçelievler, Bağcılar, Küçükçekmece and Başakşehir districts. The journey time of the line, which will carry 36 thousand passengers in one direction per hour, will be 23 minutes from the first station to the last station.
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