Samsun Metropolitan Municipality Mayor, Yusuf Ziya Yilmaz, inaugurated the new route of the rail system. The section includes five new stations and is part of a 14km extension from Gar to Tekkeköy, which will increase the total length of the line to 29km. The Balikçi – Tekkeköy section is expected to open before the end of the year.
To increase fleet capacity for the extension of the line, Samsun Metropolitan Municipality awarded Durmazlar, a rolling stock manufacturer from Turkey, a EUR12m contract in 2015 to supply eight trams, which will supplement the existing fleet of 21 vehicles.
“17 kilometers of new rail track were inaugurated, thus the line has now a total of 21 kilometers. At the end of the entire project, in the East-West direction towards Tekkeköy, the entire line will have 32 kilometers”, Mayor Yılmaz declared.
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