British traffic ends on metrobus lines

British traffic ends on Metrobus lines: IETT General Manager Arif Emecen said that with a new tender to be opened, new buses with gates on the left side of the metrobus line will be purchased and the flowing metrobus traffic will return to the flow direction from the end of 2017.
IETT General Manager Arif Emecen, Istanbul D-100 highway, because there are no doors on the left side of the metrobus, which had to go to the test of traffic flow from the end of next year, will change in the direction of traffic flow, he said.
Emecen said that the drivers of Metrobüs did not have any problems about moving in the opposite direction of the traffic flow and this was overcome with the intensive trainings given. said they would move in the direction of traffic flow.
DOES THE CAUSE OF ACCIDENT DIRECTIVE?
Metrobus line, D-100, or formerly known as E5 highway section of the city, the road was taken to the middle of the road by taking lanes. However, since there were no doors on the left side of the buses purchased for this new public transport route, another traffic consisting of bellows buses and moving in the opposite direction occurred in the divided area in the middle of the traffic flowing from the right.
The bus drivers were initially very difficult. This difficulty was overcome with training over time, but it did not prevent accidents on this divided road, even though there was no traffic. Although most of the accidents were caused by other reasons, the metrobus accidents were always examined with a sharper lens. The fact that buses had to go in the opposite direction was also seen as one of the reasons.
535 BUS 870 IS THOUSAND PEOPLE
Istanbul, the end of the 2007 metrobus came into play with discussions in a short time used to. Metrobus line, which opened as 18.3 km, 9 reached 52 kilometers during the year. Today, the line consisting of a total of 44 stations and 535 bellows buses between Beylikdüzü and Söğütlüçeşme can be crossed within 100 minutes on normal days. Metrobus, which carries an average of 870 thousand passengers per day, constitutes 6.5 of Istanbul's public transportation.
NEW METROBUS LINES COMING
IETT General Manager Arif Emecen, who spoke to Habertürk Newspaper, said that the bellows buses that will emerge from the existing metrobus line will continue to be used in urban transportation and they will carry out works to commission new metrobus lines outside D-100 highway in Istanbul from next year.