Public transportation in Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in the city and the second largest city in the world in terms of population density, which is the economic, tourism and social center of Turkey.

As Istanbul is famous for its diverse and many tourist attractions that attract people from all over the world, and at the same time, the city is also famous for being one of the crowded cities, but this does not constitute an obstacle to the diverse means of transportation that the city includes so that everyone can move between all parts with ease and That includes the European and Asian sections of Istanbul as well.

Istanbul has a wide and developed transportation network, which makes discovering the beautiful city and moving between it as easy as possible, through the following various options of public transportation in Istanbul:

– Metrobus

The metrobus considered the most important means of transportation in the city of Istanbul, whose line centered on the E5 road, which is one of the two main arteries of Istanbul’s roads.

It is called İstanbul Kart as it filled by its own machines available at each of its stations or through some small shops.

In addition, metrobus buses operate 24 hours a day.

The metrobus system also operated for the first time in a line connecting Topkapı and Avcılar by IETT in order to prevent heavy traffic on arterial roads and provide fast and convenient transportation.

And 18.5 kilometers of the road was opened for service on September 17, 2007 after construction began in 2007 when the metrobus began operating that reduced Avcılar and Topkapı Road to 22 minutes from 48 minutes.

As for the Zincirlikuyu line, it was at the beginning of the second semester, corresponding to September 8, 2008. After its establishment, the number of stations increased to 25 stations within 77 days.

The third station, Söğütlüçeşme, of the Metrobus line also opened for service through a ceremony attended by President Recep Teyip Erdoğan, and it is the line that connects the European and Asian parts of Istanbul to each other in the shortest way.

Through this connection, the time between Avcılar and Söğütlüçeşme reduced to 63 minutes.

The foundations of the Avcılar-Beylikdüzü road laid at a ceremony on March 15, 2011.

The official opening of the route held on July 19, 2012. On the 52-kilometer Beylikdüzü-Söğütluçeşme metrobus route, the total duration is 83 minutes. The metrobus transports 700,000 passengers daily .

– Metro or the so-called Subway

And one of its advantages is also its speed, as it isolated from the rest of the means of transportation, private car lines, and some of its underground paths,

which completely isolated from the rest of the transportation lines.

Which people want and can be filled within a month, and this is a good feature for people who use transportation continuously and many times a day.

One of the common points between the metrobus and the metro is the presence of both lines in the European and Asian sections of the city, and they are as follows:

European section lines

M1A line between Ataturk Airport and Yenikapı
M1B line between Yenikapı and Kirazlı
The M2 line between Yenikapı and Hacı Osman
The M3 line is between Kirazlı, Olimpiyt Ataköy and Başakşehir
M6 line between Levent and Boğaziçi University / Hisarüstü
The M7 line between Mecidiyeköy and Mahmutbey, whose stations are being completed.

Asian division lines

The M4 line between Kadıköy and Tavşantepe
M5 line between Üsküdar and Çekmeköy
The metro lines operate from six in the morning until midnight.
And do not forget to mention the train or the Marmaray metro

Which is a train system linking the European and Asian side under the sea.

Marmaray is a 76 km long tunnel that allows passengers to pass under the Inland Sea of ​​Marmara by train in just two minutes.
It is the highway that connects the European and Asian sides.

– Tram

The tram or funicular in Istanbul has an extensive network and provides easy access to many major points in the city.

However, it is also one route that does not include other means of transportation.

And if you visit the charming city of Istanbul, you must navigate its beautiful neighborhoods by using the tram or the tunnel bus that connects Karaköy and Beyoğlu, which opened in 1875 and is the second oldest underground railway in the world.