Marmaray has served 1.6 billion passengers in 13 years

Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu announced that the Marmaray line, which opened on October 29, 2013, has reached 1.6 billion passengers to date, in a statement made on the occasion of its 13th anniversary.

Operating with 43 stations on a 76.6-kilometer line between Halkalı and Gebze, Marmaray connects the Asian and European continents in 4 minutes. According to the data shared by Minister Uraloğlu, the line's daily passenger record was broken on October 6 with 762,870 people.

Approximately 181 million passengers were carried on Marmaray in the first 10 months of this year. On the line where 287 daily trips are organized, this number rises to 297 on weekends. The transportation service is provided with a fleet consisting of 54 train sets and 440 carriages.