Transportation Plan of Şanlıurfa Ready

Şanlıurfan's Transportation Plan is Ready: Şanlıurfa Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Çiftçi “We are carrying 190 thousand passengers now, a rail system is required for 200 thousand passengers, which will be operational in 2019. When the number of passengers reaches 500 thousand, the metro is needed.

Şanlıurfa Metropolitan Mayor Nihat Çiftçi said, “We are currently carrying 190 thousand passengers, a rail system is required for 200 thousand passengers, which will be operational in 2019. When the number of passengers exceeds 500 thousand, the metro is needed. ” said.

Ciftci attended the Anadolu Agency Gaziantep Regional Directorate meeting and made a statement about the services in the city.

from science to social investment in urban farmer works carried out comprehensive studies indicating that in every area, the city reminded that Turkey's youngest province.

Noting that only the student population is 670 bin Çiftçi, every year, 60 emphasized that thousands of babies were born in the city.

Stating that they are hosting more than 2 thousand Syrian refugees as well as about 500 million people, Çiftçi said, “This city is a lively and very lively city. For this, continuous roads are opened in Şanlıurfa, and crossroads and ring lines will be opened. It needs to be increased because the numbers require it. ” said.

“The width of the roads will be 50 meters”

Stating that they received consultancy services from the experts in Istanbul and Kayseri regarding the City's Transportation Master Plan, Çiftçi said:

“We have created a transportation plan in 4 stages in the north, south, east and west directions of the city. We give priority to the passenger density. The project of the first stage is over, we are at the tender stage, we will raise it to 2019. We will start the second stage in 2019. We will start work for the 3rd and 4th stages later. We will expand roads on new routes. July 15 and Martyr Bridge Crossroads have been done. At the moment, our intersection work will begin for the Riot and the waterfall ahead. There will be 4 more intersections in the direction of Karaköprü. The rail system will pass in the middle of that route. On the Akçakale side, we are expanding on the south side because the rail system does not pass when it is not 50 meters. There will be 3 junctions on the Akçakale route. Currently, expropriation is made on the routes, vehicle road capacity is all kinds of preparation. We will finish our bridge intersections. Our assembly has already given our municipality authority on this issue. With the rail system, we will reach the capacity to carry 500 thousand passengers daily. We are carrying 190 thousand passengers now. A rail system is required for 200 thousand passengers. When the number of passengers exceeds 500 thousand, the metro is needed. The rail system comes into operation in 2017 as stages. ”

In order to relieve the traffic in the city of alternative routes, they are working intensively to work in the Farmer, 3 annually in the completion of the roads and bridged intersections of traffic will be added to the rest, he added.