A new metro station to be built near the Azadlig square in Baku

A new metro station to be will be built near Azadlig Square of Baku, will be commissioned in 2016, deputy chief of Baku Metro Arif Rasulov said.

Referring to the construction of new metro stations, Rasulov noted that the work is currently underway on schedule at an accelerated rate: “Our main objective - the construction of “Avtovagzal” station and its connection with “Memar Ajami” station, which will create a third line of Baku Metro and “Memar Ajami” station will become into a transition station”.

Rasulov noted that the third line will link Baku Metro will join the metro station constructed around the Baku international bus station with Azadlig square. In general, during the initial stage there will be built six stations: “The first station line will be “Avtovagzal”, the second – “Memar Ajami”, the third - on Jeyhun Salimov street (around “Khutorskoy circle”), the fourth - at the bottom of Sport-Concert Complex named after Heydar Aliyev, the fifth - behind the Heydar Aliyev Palace, and the sixth – in Azadlig square. The last station will have at least 6 outputs”.

Rasulov made public also the period of commissioning of the third line stations. Thus, the first two stations are planned to be commissioned in late 2013, the other two - in 2015, and the last two stations - in 2016.

Rasulov said that, at the same time stations will be built in direction of “Khatai” – “H.Aslanova-2” – “Yeni Guneshli”, as well as two depots.

According to his words, in accordance with the president’s order on “Some measures related to perspective development of Baku Metro”, project on State Program on Baku Metro development has already been started. For the work on the mentioned state program, companies of Korea, Austria, France, Germany, Russia, Czech Republic and Spain have participated in an open tender held BY Baku Metro.

Consequently, 3 companies were selected and consortium has been created, which includes French company SYSTRA, English Mott MacDonald and South Korea’s Saman company. A consortium made up of a conceptual scheme of Baku Metro lines, which was approved by the head of state of the country.

In accordance with conceptual development scheme it has been considered to build 53 stations until 2030. As a result of it, the number of metro station will hit 76, length of subway lines will reach 119 km. In accordance with the strategy, there will be 5 independent metro lines in the network.


/APA/