Bursaray

BursaRay is the metro system of the western Turkish city of two million, and industrial center of Bursa. The system consists of two lines, which share a main line to the east, the branches in the course west on line two ways. The subway was opened on 24 April 2002 for passenger service. Your name " BursaRay " is an acronym of " bursa " and " Ray ," the Turkish word for rail.

" Light rail " called metro system

Trains on both lines completely from other rail and road traffic independently on separate rail tracks and at times underground and also without crossing the road. This BursaRay is a "real " subway system and no light rail, such as in Cologne. Nevertheless BursaRay is called " Hafif Metro" ( German: "light metro " ) refers to what is commonly reproduces the Germans with light rail. This is due to the operating with the top line instead of metro typical busbar in the energy supply and forth, as of the used vehicles: These are essentially the trains on the Frankfurt tram same design; ie, they are equipped as opposed to rolling stock of a "real " subway with folding doors and rear-view mirrors, brake lights and turn signals, the theoretically - would allow their use in mixed with road tram operation - such as in Frankfurt.

Operator

The metro is operated by Burulaş. The name derives from " Bursa ulaşım " - ie " Bursa Traffic " - here, an entity of the state, which is bound to the local administration of the Metropolitan Municipality of Bursa, which is subordinate to the elected City Council.

Vehicles and Technology

There are 48 vehicles in the B80 series of Siemens and 30 vehicles Flexity Swift (B -2010), Bombardier ( built in Bautzen (Saxony ) ) are used. The latter are identical to about 80 % with the Frankfurt U5 railcars. All vehicles are fully air-conditioned, with the Siemens vehicles were retrofitted with passenger air conditioners later. On line 1 are four- car trains, on the other hand used on the less congested line only 2 units of three- car trains. Furthermore Burulaş bought yet 44 Düwag SG2 by the operator RET from Rotterdam. 25 vehicles to come into use, and the other 19 are used as spare parts. The driving voltage is 1.5 kV DC. When a train control system PZB ( PZB -222 ) is the company BBR from Braunschweig used. Siemens developed the automated signal system and delivered in collaboration with the Turkish company Tüvasas the rolling stock. The track gauge is like all Turkish subway systems (such as in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and Adana) in the entire network standard gauge of 1435 mm. The platforms are 120 meters long and usually run from the middle platform.

Distance courses

Lines 1 and 2 both begin in the east of the station and proceed to Arabayatağı Demirtaşpaşa on the surface. In Arabayatağı is planned lines in an easterly direction to extend, however, is not fixed an exact date. Between the stations Şehreküstü Merinos and the lines run underground. In the further course of the western lines 1 and 2 separated by the station Acmeler. Shortly before Acmeler and on Line 2 before Nilüfer and on line 1 before Karaman are again short tunnel sections. A large part of the line path is but covered a total on a viaduct. After branching, the line ends 1 after seven stations in Emek and line 2 to 11 stations at the university. At the western end of Line 2 are four other short tunnel sections, only the station Batikent is located underground.

Rates

Students, pensioners and state employees drive reduced if they (eg student ID ) are owned by the respective authorization documents. Otherwise, the rule tariff of 1.75 TL applies. The solution of a " Bilets " to this unit price entitles passengers for 75 minutes that BursaRay lines to use the lines of the urban bus and the tram line Bursa in any direction. The electronic pre-paid card BuKART also allows a debiting of the fare at the ticket barriers on sensors when passing, or the activation of the locking cross at monthly tickets.

Operating times

A complete east-west transit line 1 of Emek after Arabayatağı is 38 minutes. Line 2 takes its western terminus Üniversite to Arabayatağı 43 minutes. The underground trains run from 6.00 to 24.00 clock. On the busy main line of the two lines is the sequence of moves each twice as dense as on the branches west of branching in Acemler. Between 6:00 and 20:00 clock the main route between Acmeler and Demirtaşpaşa clock intervals are driven by five minutes on the busiest section. On the outer branches and on the trunk Tracke between Demirtaşpaşa and the eastern terminus Arabayatağı section arise ten-minute timings, since every other train from the west ends in Demirtaşpaşa. After 20:00 clock the offer is reduced slightly (see chart clock frequency ).