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#1 ·
Turkish, Bulgarian companies to build Sofia metro

SOFIA, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Bulgaria has contracted Turkish Dogus Construction Group and Bulgarian consortium Metrotrace to build Sofia's second metro line for a combined 471 million levs ($354.4 million), the transport ministry said on Wednesday.

The companies won a tender for the 6.5 kilometre stretch, aimed to relieve the traffic in Sofia and cut carbon dioxide emissions by 35,000 tonnes per year, the ministry said.

Turkey's Dogus will build the first sector of the stretch, which is 3.8 kilometres, for 329.1 million levs ($247.6 million). Bulgaria's Metrotrace will finish the last 2.6 kilometres in a 141.9 million levs ($106.8 million) deal.

The European Union-backed project will be cofinanced by the Sofia Municipality. The line should be completed by 2012.

The Balkan country launched a small section of the Sofia subway in early 1998. It plans to build three railway lines across the capital, where more than 2 million people, or roughly a quarter of Bulgaria's population, live.
 
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#2 ·
Yeah the first line will get 6 new stations by December this year and will have 14 stations. About the second line, two stations and the tunnels between them are already build in the 80s.
 
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Sofia to inject 60 mln levs into subway project

SOFIA, September 10 (Dnevnik BFNS) - Sofia municipality will make some 60 million levs advance payment for the construction of the section linking the northern-lying Nadezhda borough with the downtown Cherni Vrah boulevard. The councilors will vote tomorrow on pouring a further 241 million levs into the project. Half of the amount should come under Transport operational programme and the rest from the budget. The contractors, Turkish company Dogus Insaat and Bulgarian tie-in Metrotrace, are to break ground on the project by end-2008. The section should be up and running in 45 months. By 2012 the system is planned grow into 31 km of rails and carry 420,000 people a day.
 
#13 ·
I think we people should avoid using those words in a nice forum like this, please :eek:hno:
 
#15 · (Edited)
" Originally Posted by serdar samanlı:
It is pleasing to see that we Turks are building metro lines to Sofia. After all, Sofia and the rest of Bulgaria used to belong to Turks. "

For 500 years of SLAVERY you have ruined pretty much our land, now it's time that you build something in Bulgaria !!! And this time YOU are the workers and WE are the bosses !
 
#21 ·
Some fresh photos of the works on the extension of metro line 1, thanks to Tego:

The Tunnels at Nezavisimost Sq. (Sheraton Hotel):





This is the machine that pumps out the soil out of the tunnel (currently somewhere under Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd. next to the Italian Embassy):



This is the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) itself:



One of the control panels:

Here's a picture of the Eastbound Tunnel below Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd. at the Ventilation Shaft across the Military Club:



More coming up later (today hopefully).

More pictures (sorry for the bad quality - the company camera is a piece of...you know what):

That's the Ventilation Shaft across the Military Club taken from the bottom:



These are pictures from the inside of Kliment Ohridski Station (across the university - Metro Station 8:



Southern Vestibule (concourse):





The platform (it's only halfway done, they're waiting for the Tunnel Boring Machine to finish and then they'll start on the other half):







And this will be the travolator between the station and Orlov Most:

 
#23 ·
^^See the map below. Metro line 1 extension is in light blue. Latest info is that in May stations "Mladost", "Studentska", "Musagenitza", "Interpred" and "Vasil Levski staidum" will be operational. Till the end of the year the last station of the extension - "Kliment Ohridski" will be operational too. :cheers:

 
#24 ·
Some fresh photos of the inspection trip on the MD1 extension this weekend.

Also it was announced that the line between "Vasil Levski" station MD1[10] and "Mladost" station MD1[14] will be opened on 6th of May , and the connection between "Serdika" station MD1[8] and "Vasil Levski" station MD1[10] will be finished till the end of the year.


3 photos of "Interpred" station MD1[11]. Thanks to Vlado from gtsofia.info.











"St. Kliment Ohridski" station MD1[9] :banana:







Thanks to KRUPA












"Mladost" station MD1[14]











 
#26 · (Edited)
^^ The 2 built up in the commie era station are from MD2. "NDK" and "Hemus" stations. You can see where they are on the map in the previous posts. For more pics you can check out one of my previous posts - http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=29663862&postcount=6. The construction of MD2's 8 stations started 2 months ago.

More pics of the almost ready stations from MD1's extension:

More pics of the new stations:

"Vasil Levski" station MD1[10]






"Interped" station MD1[11]





"Vartopo" station MD1[12]








"Mladost" station MD1[14]




source: http://dariknews.bg
pictures:Юлиана Николова
 
#29 ·
We should clarify that those are the companies that will built a section on MD2 that just started a couple of months ago.
Major constructor of the first MD pictures of which you see is Japanese TAISEI Corporation along with some local companies.
 
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