Romania's first driverless metro line will be twenty-one kilometers long, with nineteen stations.
The Railway Gazette writes that it is Romania's first driverless metro line
it will be twenty-one kilometers long, with nineteen stations.
They add: in the past few days, the foundation stone of the metro in Cluj was laid, thus the construction of the line has officially begun.
They emphasize: the cost of the investment is expected to reach 13.7 billion lei (one thousand billion forints based on the current exchange rate), which will be financed through the country's national recovery and resilience plan (PNRR). The largest part of the costs, 10 billion lei (nearly 750 billion forints), is provided by the Romanian government, the European Union supports the project with 1 billion 480 million lei (110 billion forints), the rest is collected from local contributions.
This is the largest infrastructure project in Cluj's history.
The public tender for its design and construction was won in May 2023 by the consortium of Turkey's Gülermak, France's Alstom and Romania's Arcada.
They state: the first metro line of the "treasure city" can start in 2031 according to the plans, but according to the mayor, the first seven stations can be completed by the end of July 2026 - the condition of the EU source is that the first section must be operational within four years.
Twenty-six three-car Alstom metro trains will work on the line, with a capacity of 540 passengers; the planned daily passenger capacity of the three-minute flights will be 164,000 people in total.
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