December 24, 2024 In the Buca Metro, where İzmir Büyükkent (metropolitan) Municipality continues to be built with its own resources, tunnel excavations gained great speed with the introduction of four tunnel boring machines. 38 Percent of the tunnels that make up the line were completed. Buca Metro will reduce the transportation time between Buca's most remote neighborhood and the İzmir Bay below 20 minutes.

At the end of 2025, the Tunnels were aimed to complete the tunnels, while Alpaslan Kara, Head of the Rail System Department of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, explained the targets. Üçyol, Zafertepe, Bozyaka, General Asım Gündüz, Şirinyer, Buca Municipality, Kasaplar Square, Hasanağa Garden, Dokuz Eylül University, Buca Koop and Çamlıkule Stations, Buca Metro, Narlıdere-Bornova Evka 3 working in Üçyol Station It will be integrated in Şirinyer with İZBAN line. Train sets on this line will serve as a driverless. Buca's most remote neighborhood Çamlıkule and İzmir Bay will fall below 20 minutes.

Can carry 400 thousand passengers a day" Alpaslan Kara, Head of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Rail System Department, stated that a total of 19 thousand 500 meters of tunnel will be excavated. About 38 percent of our tunnel excavations are over. All tunnel works between Buca Koop Station and Tınaztepe Campus have ended. We also connected two stages between General Asım Gündüz and Zafertepe Üçyol. We have completed the tunnels between three stations. We plan to finish our remaining 12 thousand meters tunnel works in 2025. This is a large project that will consist of 10 stations of 13 kilometers long and an input-exit structure. It has a capacity of 400 thousand passengers per day. This integrated public transportation means a great contribution… Buca will relax and Izmir will relax ”.

"We plan a 16 -set train fleet consisting of 108 vehicles" Stating that the project is working quickly for the meeting with the people of Izmir, a total of 750 personnel working at all construction sites, Kara said: “We will go to a tender at 2025 for the purchase of the train sets to work. We plan a 16 -set metro train fleet consisting of 108 vehicles. In order to maintain these vehicles, a workshop and warehouse area with a closed area of ​​80 thousand square meters will be built. There will be maintenance areas and offices in the warehouse consisting of two floors. As of the end of 2027, we aim to start the business in Buca Metro. This project, which is very important for Izmir, is carried out with approximately 450 million euros. We are aware that our fellow countrymen living in the region have some trouble due to construction activity. However, the effort will turn into a great comfort with the relief of public transportation. ”

source (translated from): https://www.izmir.bel.tr/tr/Haberler/buca-metrosunda-tunel-kazilari-dort-koldan-suruyor/52493/156