Saturday, August 18, 2012

New Metro Line Boosts Istanbul 2020

New Metro Line Boosts Istanbul 2020
Saturday, August 18, 2012 9:32am EDT GB Staff

The first metro line on the Asian side of Istanbul was officially inaugurated Friday by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Kadir Topbas, the Mayor of Istanbul

The Line M4 links Kadikoy station, near the proposed Istanbul 2020 "Port Cluster" of Olympic venues, with Kartal, 22 km further south, and has a capacity of 70,000 passengers per hour per direction.

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