Balıkesire Rail System and Airport Terminal Annunciation: Balıkesir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Ahmet Edip Uğur, who had various contacts in Ankara, gave the good news that Balıkesir will be built on a rail system.
Mayor of Balıkesir Metropolitan Municipality Ahmet Edip Uğur negotiated with the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Maritime Affairs, Binali Yıldırım and the projects prepared for Balıkesir and cooperation with the Ministry. President Ugur, the Ministry of Transport meeting from Balikesir Rail System and the new Airport Terminal was published with the good news.
Balıkesir Metropolitan Municipality will operate the line that will start from Otogar (Ayşebacı) in Balıkesir city center and stop at Sanayi, Gar and Yıldız stops, and extend to the Organized Industrial Zone. The system successfully implemented by Minister Binali Yıldırım under the name of İZBAN A.Ş in İzmir will be realized by Metropolitan Mayor Ahmet Edip Uğur in Balıkesir. Balıkesir Büyükşehir started protocol preparations with TCDD; It also initiated works for stations, overpasses and trains. Mayor Uğur thanked UDH Minister Binali Yıldırım for the project, which will be realized with an investment of 103 million dollars. Stating that they would prefer to use domestic vehicles, Mayor Uğur stated that they plan to put the rail system into service until 2018. Bus Station - After the 1st Stage of the OSB, the 2nd Stage, which will extend to Kabakdere on the Edremit Road, will be started. The rail system line, which is targeted to carry 12 million passengers per year, will ease the traffic by increasing the share of public transportation in Balıkesir city center. The Izmir Banliyo line, İZBAN, launched by Binali Yıldırım during the previous ministry period, has carried over 250 million passengers to date.
Another important investment that was mentioned in the same visit and received from Binali Yıldırım was the airport terminal building. In the period of the Ministry of Finance of Edremit Kocaseyit Kocaseyit, Edip Uğur'a projects prepared by the Metropolitan Municipality will respond to the needs of a modern terminal gave the good news. Balıkesir Airport, open to military and civilian use, is in high demand from private jets. With its new termimal building, the airport will be suitable for private jets and domestic flights.
Mr. President, I would like to repeat an opinion that I shared at the contact address of the BŞB. Unless you integrate both the rail system and the airport terminal with the railway lines that still exist from the Bandırma region and can be designed and built by TCDD from the Edremit region, these good investments will not become suitable enough. Also, it will not be useful enough politically. Every investment you make without Edremit and Bandırma with you or including these places in the system is doomed to remain as a dead investment. Especially when İzmir-ankara YHT and Bandırma - bursa - ankara YHT are finished, Balıkesir will automatically stay outside of the railway transportation network. In this case, a railway that will be planned in accordance with the operation of double-line electric and currently used YHT sets and national high-speed trains to be produced between Balıkesir and Edremit will provide transportation from Edremit to Ankara and Istanbul through Eskişehir. This line will be the salvage line of Balıkesir. Moreover, even those who still have Savaştepe, Banda and airport and even in Edremit which will be held terminal connection is made when Turkey 's n as many places of the time in the many instead and abroad will come to the airport already. The reason why Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport is the busiest airport after Ataturk airport today is that the rail system operates almost throughout the region.