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[Anmdt]

Hızray - High speed ring connection from asia to europe in Istanbul:
Finally, a project will deliver the missing piece of the puzzle for public transportation in İstanbul, connecting from asia to europe with a high speed railway which focuses on keeping stations low as possible and connected to the transfer hubs and other major metro and bus lines, the trains will reach 160 km/h at most and in average of 80 km/h, the intervals will be kept low as 3 mins to sustain comfort. It is believed that, the project will ease the load on Metrobus lines.
The project was initially presented by a private company at public transport workshop, later adopted by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. Project is planned to be PPI.
It will be the second railway project following Marmaray commuter, with third ,by TCDD, is on the way as intercity high speed railway connection from Sabiha Gökçen Airport - Istanbul Grand Airport and Halkali (major hub).

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1304395312489005058

Istanbul has a very long line from one end to the other. All transportation vehicles in Istanbul have a certain mileage. For example, this decreases to 20 kilometers per hour for wheeled vehicles. For example, Marmaray is 38 kilometers. We had to figure this out. For this reason, with "Hızray" HalkalıWe are doing a project with 11 stations from to Sabiha Gökçen. The low number of stops increases the speed. Thanks to this, from Sabiha Gökçen HalkalıThere is also a station layout that includes many vertical subway lines. This project is a project that will allow very fast access to Istanbul from the top. Our goal; to bring this project to a position to receive the permissions of the Assembly and a number of authorized boards in the first six months of 55. It is a project with a cost of about 2021 billion dollars. It has a duration of four years. We will be able to make the cost of this project in the most ethical form of the "build-operate-transfer" model. We also have talks. We want to make this project feasible in the 5th month of 2021.

https://raillynews.com/2020/09/imamoglu-gave-the-mujde,-istanbula-hizray-is-coming/

 

[Anmdt]

First metro (M1) of Istanbul is soon will be renewed with new unmanned trains and upgraded stations, aiming higher capacity per train and per-hour.
Istanbul's metro is being more accessible with new lines, Istanbul municipality has resolved financing part, the priority is completion of already initiated or high importance lines.
Istanbul Grand Airport metro is under construction, expected to be operational in near-future
Sabiha Gökçen Airport metro connection is being re-started along with Pendik - Airport metroline enabling transfer from intercity train station and intercity ferry port.


Total metro- line : 230~ km
Under construction: 270~ km (TBD in ~3 years)
Aim: 1000~

 

[Huelague]

Dude, 160 km/h is not high speed

 

[Anmdt]

Metrobus : the only bus rapid transport in Turkey (correct me if it exists somewhere else in Turkey)
Build as an interim solution until a metro line would be completed in the same route, became backbone of the Istanbul's public transport that nobody can get rid of, also known as "manned un-air vehicle" due to it is being overloaded at pick hours.
Tubitak and scientists had to run simulations and optimizations several times to optimize new lines with new start-end stations to maximize frequency, and capacity. Drivers run on tight schedules to keep up with frequency tables to ensure system works on clock-ticks.

A New Study from IETT to Reduce Metrobus Density ...

New Work from IETT to Reduce Metrobus Density... - İBB, President Ekrem İmamoğluIt started a series of studies with the instruction of . Even the increase in passengers

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[Anmdt]

Dude, 160 km/h is not high speed

It is, for a public transport.
It has got 11 stations in 50 km, try to run a bullet train in there 160 km/h is useless when average speed is 80 with breaks at stations.
in my opinion max speed won't be 160 but 120 km/h or even less ~100.
Not sure even if it makes a way to application, from the conceptual design. $2, billion is lots of money.

 

[Huelague]

It is, for a public transport.
It has got 11 stations in 50 km, try to run a bullet train in there 160 km/h is useless when average speed is 80 with breaks at stations.
in my opinion max speed won't be 160 but 120 km/h or even less ~100.
Not sure even if it makes a way to application, from the conceptual design. $2, billion is lots of money.

Of course, but its still no high speed train. Its more a 'hizlandiran tren' than 'hizli tren'.

 

[what]

I hope that in longterm those Metrobusses can be upgraded to Trams.

 

[Zafer]

First metro (M1) of Istanbul is soon will be renewed with new unmanned trains and upgraded stations, aiming higher capacity per train and per-hour.
Istanbul's metro is being more accessible with new lines, Istanbul municipality has resolved financing part, the priority is completion of already initiated or high importance lines.
Istanbul Grand Airport metro is under construction, expected to be operational in near-future
Sabiha Gökçen Airport metro connection is being re-started along with Pendik - Airport metroline enabling transfer from intercity train station and intercity ferry port.


Total metro- line : 230~ km
Under construction: 270~ km (TBD in ~3 years)
Aim: 1000~

With 1000 km İstanbul will probably have one of the longest city rail networks in the world. The longest planned networks are in China with the same 1000km length.

 

[Xenon54]

Dude, 160 km/h is not high speed

For a metro it is, pretty fast actually, the project has a similar magnitute to Crossrail project in London.