The Halkapınar—Otogar Line () is a planned urban

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line in

İzmir İzmir is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara. It is on the Aegean Sea, Aegean coast of Anatolia, and is the capital of İzmir Province. In 2024, the city of İzmir had ...

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. The line has a total length of and would begin at

Halkapınar Transfer Center Halkapınar Transfer Center (), commonly referred to as Halkapınar Metro or just Halkapınar, is a multi-modal transportation complex in İzmir, Turkey. Located in northeast Konak, it is the largest transportation complex in İzmir, as well as ...

and run southeast along Kamil Tunca Boulevard to the İzmir Bus Terminal (). Construction of the line was approved in May 2017, and is expected to begin in December 2017 or January 2018. It was previously planned as a subway but revised in 2018 to be constructed as a commuter railway.

Overview

The Halkapınar—Otogar Line was originally planned in 2005 by the

İzmir Metropolitan Municipality İzmir is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara. It is on the Aegean Sea, Aegean coast of Anatolia, and is the capital of İzmir Province. In 2024, the city of İzmir had ...

. The line was planned to diverge from the M1 Line at Halkapınar and run underneath Kamil Tunca Boulevard to the İzmir Bus Terminal. Since Kamil Tunca Boulevard was built on an old railway branch, the land was still owned by the

Turkish State Railways The State Railways of the Republic of Turkey (), abbreviated as TCDD, is a government-owned national railway company responsible for the ownership and maintenance of railways in Turkey, as well as the planning and construction of new lines. TCDD ...

. The city municipality bought the land for 22 million YTL (appr. 18.8 million

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at the time) and finalized plans. However construction was later halted by the

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which later acquired the project from the city. The Ministry of Transport re-planned the line to include it within the Ankara-İzmir high-speed railway, on which construction began in 2013. The ministry included the Halkapınar—Otogar line within their 2014-17 budget and in April 2017 submitted the project for an environmental impact report, which was completed in May. The route of the line remained the same but will be constructed together with a heavy rail line. A total of four new stations will be built. These stations are: Vakıflar, Çamdibi, Altındağ and Otogar.

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