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Line M11, officially referred to as the M11 Gayrettepe–Istanbul Airport–Halkalı Metro Line (Turkish: Gayrettepe–İstanbul Havalimanı–Halkalı Metro Hattı), is a line of the Istanbul Metro. As of March 2024 [update] , it is operational between Gayrettepe and Arnavutköy Hastane via Istanbul Airport .
The Istanbul Metro (Turkish: İstanbul metrosu) is a rapid transit railway network that serves the city of Istanbul, Turkey. Apart from the M11 line, which is operated by TCDD Taşımacılık , the system is operated by Metro Istanbul , a public enterprise controlled by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality .
The company was founded under the name of İstanbul Ulaşım A.Ş. on 16 August 1988, while Istanbul's first modern public urban rail line was under construction (Aksaray-Kocatepe section of the M1 line). Almost 28 years later, on 20 May 2016, the company was renamed as Metro İstanbul. [2] Old logo of the company
The route between Istanbul and Ankara by rail has been a single-track line, and trains usually were delayed 30 minutes to 2 hours plus the average 7 hours, 30 minutes travel time. Rail transport in Turkey was already at its lowest point, so in 2003 the State Railways and the Turkish Ministry of Transport made an agreement to build a 533 km (331 ...
Otokar Centro minibus at the 2010 FIAA in Madrid, Spain. Centro. Otokar produces the famous Deutz F4L912-powered, 80S minibuses based on the TAM 80T50 light truck. They have held the largest percentage by far among all dolmuş es (share taxis) in Istanbul and Ankara since their introduction in the 1970s.
With Istanbul's population growing and the city rapidly expanding outward, the bus service available in the city became insufficient in the 1970s and 1980s. At that time, the city did not have a mass transit rail system, except for a single 0.57 km (0.35 mi) funicular line known as Tünel – the last operating original tramline was closed in 1969.
Marmaray (pronounced [ˈmaɾmaɾaj] ⓘ) is a 76.6-kilometre-long (47.6 mi) commuter rail line located in Istanbul, Turkey.The line runs from Halkalı, on the European side, to Gebze, on the Asian side, along the north shore of the Sea of Marmara.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality officials have stated that Istanbul Canal will cost an estimated ₺75 billion (US$10 billion) to build. [29] [30] The central government has put forward a build-operate-transfer model as its main preference, but will use funds from the national budget if needed. [31]