Konya Karaman YHT Line Announced The Date To Be Put Into Service

'When will the Konya-Karaman High Speed ​​​​Train (YHT) Line be opened?' question found its answer. Adil Karaismailoğlu, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, made the expected statement.

Transport and Infrastructure Minister Adil Karaismailoğlu met with highway workers in Bolu before the New Year. Minister Karaismailoğlu, who met with the workers working in the General Directorate of Highways Lifeguard Maintenance Operation Chief, announced that the Konya - Karaman high-speed train project will be put into service on January 8, after a visit to the Bolu Mountain Tunnel Operation Center.

Karaismailoğlu said, “The year 2022 will be a busy year for us to complete existing projects and implement new ones. We will open our 1915 Çanakkale Bridge and Malkara Çanakkale highway, which will be one of the centennial symbols of our Republic, in the first quarter of 2022. The Kanal Istanbul Project, which we started in 2021, will be one of our most important agendas in 2022, where we will accelerate the progress of the project. With Kanal Istanbul, we will bring a new breath to world maritime transportation. We will increase Turkey's logistical dominance in the seas. We will put the Ankara-Sivas High Speed ​​​​Train line into operation at the end of 2022. We are putting our Konya – Karaman high-speed train project into service on January 8th. We will make our High Speed ​​​​Train lines more efficient on the way to becoming a logistics superpower, and we will use them for freight transportation.”

“Our national electric trains will be on the rails”

Karaismailoğlu stated that national electric trains will be on the rails in 2022, and said, “We are leaving behind a strong year for urban rail systems, in addition to our railway investments that we have completed, made progress and planned on a national scale. The contribution of urban rail systems to the economy and the environment is at a level that we cannot ignore. We have 10 projects under construction in six provinces. The year 2022 will be a year in which very large and important urban rail system projects will be realized. Also, next year, our national electric trains will be on the rails. We will continue the breakthroughs we have made in the railways, which we declared as a reform area in 2021, in the new year," he said.