Métro léger de Tunis

The light rail Tunis (literally: light Métro ( the city) Tunis, French Métro Léger de Tunis, Arab المترو الخفيف لمدينة تونس - al - MiTru al - chafīf al - Madina Tūnis. ) Is a 1985 put into use light rail network in Greater Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. The network has a length of about 45 km and comprises six lines and 66 stations. It is of the Société des transports de Tunis ( also called Transtu ), the body responsible for public transport in Greater Tunis public transport company operated. The light rail Tunis is the first of its kind on the African continent.

History

First tram network

In Tunis since 1885 reversed a horse-drawn tram. In 1900, the first electric tram was opened. As a result, the electric tram network was expanded more and more, until the largest route length was achieved with 30 kilometers in 1935. In 1945 the first tramway lines were shut down and replaced by trolleybuses. Over the next 20 years the network has been gradually thinned until April 20, 1960, the last two tram lines were shut down. These were the 3 line to Le Bardo and take line 4 to Manouba. Only ten years later, and the trolley bus was reset.

New tram line

Basic network

Tunis has taken the first city in Africa a modern light rail system in operation. The facilities were built in charge of Siemens AG, the vehicles were high-floor light rail cars that were built based on the Hanoverian TW 6000 Duewag. As the first track line 1 Tunis Marine ↔ Ben Arous was taken with a length of 9.5 kilometers into operation on 13 October 1985. On 7 November 1989 the line 2 Place de Barcelone ↔ Ariana followed with a length of 8.9 kilometers. Line 3 Place de Barcelone ↔ Les Jasmine was put together with the line 4 Tunis Marine ↔ Bardo on 25 July 1990. In September 2009, then followed by the opening of Line 5 Place de Barcelone ↔ Intilaka. Then the line was about 3 Les jasmine addition to Ibn Khaldoun in July 1994. Then the line was extended over 4 Bardo addition to Den Den On March 27, 1995. Thus, the staff responsible at Siemens basic network was fully operational. Due to the high demand soon became apparent that the existing 78 railcars would be insufficient. Therefore, not only additional cars had to be procured, but also a second depot to be built.

Expansion from 2001

In addition to the large passenger growth on the existing lines was also the desire to expand the network to connect the area of ​​El Mourouj with more than 100 000 inhabitants can. For this purpose, a branch line from the stop Mohamed Ali was built on the line 1. On August 11, 2008, the opening of the first section to El Montazah, November 8, 2008 then went the entire route to El Mourouj in operation. For this new route Tunis turned away from high-floor light rail vehicles and issued instead Alstom a contract to supply 30 low-floor trams. Because of their entry height of 35 centimeters, the high-level platforms were scaled back. On the new line 6 only operate low-floor vehicles. On 10 December 2009 the line was extended to eight 4 stops from Den Den of Manouba University (stop Kheireddine ).

Rolling stock

Between 1984 and 1997, Siemens supplied 136 railcars of type Hanover to Tunis. 2004, the acquisition of 30 new trains from Alstom Citadis was decided to supplement. Since the end of 2007, the 32 -meter-long five-part multi- articulated cars of type Citadis 302 in use. You have only one cab and operate basically rear to rear coupled in double traction.