Doha Metro

The Metro Doha ( Doha Metro project name ) is a planned rail-based mass transit system in the Qatari capital Doha.

Inspired by appropriate Metro systems in the neighboring Gulf cities in the United Arab Emirates, already moving Metro Dubai and situated in the planning stages Metro Abu Dhabi checks the Qatari Ministry of Transportation is currently in a feasibility study whether Metro would also make sense for Doha.

The key data speak in favor of such a system: the ever- north through Urbanisationsprojekte as Lusail City expanding on the coast settlement area, accompanied by continued compression settlement in the hinterland, grow by 2020 to a settlement Doha cluster of at least 1 million residents.

First ideas of concept study go there to build a Metro with a total of 85 kilometers of track; which a route north along the east coast, a quick route, among others, to Doha airport, a freight route for the industrial zones and a range of more S -Bahn -like light-rail system. The Doha Metro will primarily bind together the far-flung suburbs of Doha and development areas such as Lusail, Education City and West Bay.

The Ministry of Transport in July 2011, the first phase of the estimated to $ 150 billion Qatari Riyal Metro project ausgeschrieben.Es includes 22 km of tunnels and 15 underground stations. To the order internationally 60 consortia have applied. In October 2011, however, announced that it will delay the process until the fourth quarter of 2012 to still develop precise plans. The envisaged by the client commissioning the metro tends to 2017, where already a connection to the planned railway lines should be made on the mainland as possible.

Role as a building block in Qatar rail project

The Doha Metro is according to the latest planning an integral part of the overall rail plan for Qatar. DB International, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG, was commissioned to develop a rail system for freight and passenger transport for the peninsula. It is planned to link Qatar to the rail network by Saudi Arabia to the south and a quick link connection on the west pier planned to Bahrain. In the more densely populated areas of Doha, there will be connecting elements in the area. The integrated system thus consists of about 350 kilometers long-distance routes with freight, and around another 300 kilometers south rail lines ( light rail system ) in the densely populated region, of which 85 km subway routes, partly in tunnel in the narrow metropolitan Doha. After award of the Football World Cup 2022 in Qatar Doha Metro and Light Railway system is of particular importance, since each of the 12 World Cup stadiums to get a rail connection.