The Medina Metro or Madinah Metro is a planned three-line
metro
Metro, short for metropolitan, may refer to:
Geography
* Metro (city), a city in Indonesia
* A metropolitan area, the populated region including and surrounding an urban center
Public transport
* Rapid transit, a passenger railway in an urb ...
system for the city of
Medina
Medina,, ', "the radiant city"; or , ', (), "the city" officially Al Madinah Al Munawwarah (, , Turkish: Medine-i Münevvere) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (, ), is the second-holiest city in Islam, and the capital of the ...
,
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...
.
Planning
On 4 November 2013 the Saudi cabinet announced that a metro would be built in Madinah within eight years.
A committee for the project was to be chaired by the Governor of Medina, Prince
Faisal bin Salman.
In March 2015 the Madinah Metro Development Authority (MMDA) awarded French companies
Systra
SYSTRA is a multinational engineering and consulting group in the mobility sector, whose fields of activity include rail and public transport. In 2019, it employed a staff of about 7,300 people, and is a limited company which shareholders includ ...
(consortium leader) and
Egis Group
Egis is an international company active in the consulting, construction engineering and mobility service sectors that design and operate intelligent infrastructure and buildings. Egis operates in 120 countries and has 16,200 employees.
History
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a 12-month contract to carry out feasibility studies and produce preliminary design for the metro.
The network is to be built in two phases for opening in 2020s.
Network
* Line
* Line
* Line
Total route length of 95 km. 25 km would be underground and 48 km elevated.
See also
*
Jeddah Metro
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Makkah Metro
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Riyadh Metro
The Riyadh Metro ( ar, قطار الرياض ', ) is a rapid transit system under construction in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia. It is part of the King Abdulaziz Project for Riyadh Public Transport and will consist of six metro lines ...
*
Haramain High Speed Rail Project
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List of metro systems
References
{{Rail transport in Saudi Arabia
Rapid transit in Saudi Arabia
Metro
Metro, short for metropolitan, may refer to:
Geography
* Metro (city), a city in Indonesia
* A metropolitan area, the populated region including and surrounding an urban center
Public transport
* Rapid transit, a passenger railway in an urb ...
Proposed rapid transit
Proposed rail infrastructure in Saudi Arabia
Rapid transit systems under construction