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Algiers Metro
Info
Locale	Algiers, Algeria
Transit type	Rapid transit
Number of lines	3
Number of stations	62
Operation
Began operation	Phase I: Summer, 2009
Operator(s)	EMA
Technical
System length	64 kilometers (40 mi)

The Algiers Metro in Algiers, Algeria, is an urban project which dates from the years 1970 designed to address the need for mass transport caused by the city's demographic explosion. Launched in the 1980s, the project slowed down because of financial and insecurity difficulties in the 1990s. The project recommenced in 2003.

The first phase of the line 1 - “Haï el Badr” - “Tafourah-Large post office”, 9 km, 10 stations, currently under construction, must be brought into service in summer 2009.

Contents 1 History of the project 2 Building site in progress 3 Extensions 4 Cost of the project 5 Inauguration 6 External links

[edit] History of the project

• Planned in the 1970s, the Algiers rapid transit subway project envisaged a network of 64 km.

Work was officially inaugurated in 1982, the technical studies completed in 1985, and a German company and a Japanese woman are retained for the realization. But the fall of oil prices, by $30 until with half of this sum the following years, reduced considerably the financial resources of the country. The project was on the way to be integrated into the shoed projects, but finally it was decided to return to the project of initial subway.

It will have to be waited three years so that soint started its realization in 1988. The contract awarded to two national companies COSIDER and [1], who were not tested, very well on the matter quickly be slowed down by the financial and political crisis. Only four stations will be built in 15 years.

The Basement of Algiers one appears difficult to dig, which is added to one topography irregular. Work did not advance any more but with the idle.

• In 1994, a first section which goes from Emir-Abdelkader to the Large-Station, 450 meters length, was completed. Another section of 650 meters, which connects the station Large-Station to Khélifa-Boukhalfa is was completed.
• 1999, the Company of the Subway of Algiers (EMA) invited international companies to tender and two were selected: French Systra-Sgte for the project management, and Agéro-German GAAMA for the construction and completion (within 38 months) of the civil engineering and earthworks.
• In 2003, benefiting from the return of the economic equilibrium, the government decided to equip the project with adequate financial means and new organizational and operational structures.
• In January 2006, the Company of the Subway of Algiers (EMA) entrusted the realization of the “integral system” (key-in-hand) to Siemens Transportation Systems for the installation of fixed material, signaling and electrification, Vinci Construction Great Projects for the civil engineering, and the Spanish company Construcciones y auxiliar of ferrocarriles (CAF) for the rolling stock (14 trains of 6 cars). The grouping will use technology “Trainguard MT CBTC” already implemented on the line 1 and 14 of the Paris subway.

[edit] Building site in progress

With a length of 9 km, the first phase of line 1 includes 10 stations, connecting Haï el Badr (Bourouba) to Tafourah-Large Post office (Algiers-Center).

• The section El Hamma - Haï El Badr, with its 4 stations and 17 other works for ventilation and cables was carried out within 38 months. Civil engineering work and rail laying were officially completed on June 30, 2007.

• The installation and the welding of tracks, a 23 km length (until the deposits) were started in April 2007 by the French company South-western Travaux France (TSO), the building site must be delivered in November 2007.

• The first car must arrive to Algiers before December 2007.

[edit] Extensions

Invitations to tender were launched for the realization of a section of 4 km between Bachdjarrah and El Harrach composed of 4 stations and one viaduct of 250 meters above the strap motorway Ouchaïah Wadi.

• The Gaama group which carried out the first section quoted of 250 million euros including/understanding the realization of a multimode station (drunk subway/train/taxis) on the level of the railway station of El Harrach.

Two other extensions of line 1 are envisaged to the horizon 2010:

• of “Tafourah” towards “place of the Martyrs”
• of Haï El Badr " towards “Aïn Naâdja”, Athlone towards Mullingar

[edit] Cost of the project

The total cost of the first phase of line 1 would rise to 77 billion DA, including 30 billion for the civil engineering and 47 billion for the equipment, is close to 900 million euros.

[edit] Inauguration

• The delivery of 14 6-car trains is expected. Each has a 108m length with 208 seats, and can transport 1216 people.

• The subway will allow the movement of 41.000 travelers/hour, that is to say 150 million travelers/year, with a headway of under 2 minutes. Traveling at a speed of 70 km/h, the subway will be open 5 a.m. to 11 p.m.

• A first brought into service is announced for the end of 2008. The exploitation of the subway will be entrusted to a tested company, in the form of a mandate of management: RATP assignee of the market in August 2007 was declared.

[edit] External links

• Algiers Metro
• Algiers Metro (Ratp Djazaïr)
• Siemens Transportation Systems