Transport and Infrastructure Minister Mehmet Cahit Turhan, high-speed train lines, the ministry in the coming years will be an important and priority projects, specifying more economical and safe railway service to spread across the country to prepare new projects, he said.
Turhan, garden-Nurdağı in Gaziantep Nurdağı district Fevzipaşa Variant Speed Rail Project, said in a statement after the meeting held at the site, he said that Turkey has in recent years continued to projects that emits a countrywide high-speed train operation.
Turhan said that one of them was Mersin-Adana-Osmaniye-Gaziantep line and that they had converted the conventional railway line into a high-speed train line. Turhan, 294 kilometer Gaziantep-Adana railway line will fall to 226 kilometers, emphasizing the geometric standards of this place will be improved by beating.
“We will reduce Adana-Gaziantep to 1,5 hours by high-speed train”
Drawing attention to the importance of the line in question, Turhan said, “Both the bends of our railway line are eliminated and we are reducing the high slopes to 68 kilometers by shortening the distance between Adana and Gaziantep with tunnels, viaducts. We will reduce the travel time between Adana and Gaziantep, which is approximately 226 hours with our passenger trains, to 5,5 hours by high-speed train. ” said.
Turhan, the continuation of the project between Mersin-Adana 67 kilometers in the travel time of one hour will be reduced to 30 minutes, he said.
“We will spread the rail service across the country”
Minister Turhan made the following explanations on the railway projects:
“Of course, we see time as the most valuable value in our age. We aim to use this time in the production area by producing human resources, not passing labor on the roads. High-speed train lines and high-speed train lines in our country will be important and priority projects of our ministry in the coming years. We are preparing new projects to spread the more economical, safer railway service across the country. ”
The most important part of the Mersin-Adana-Gaziantep route is the Nurdağı Fevzipasa Variant. Turhan said that they would like to complete this service as soon as possible.
Touching on the effects of rising project standards, Turhan said, “Under the current operating conditions, the total of 57 kilometers was taking 80 minutes. After putting our new route into service, we will reduce it to 15 minutes. For this freight train… Our passenger trains covered the distance in 60 minutes. The travel time between them will decrease by 10 minutes. ” used the expression.
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