Public transport in Algeria

Ilya Varlamov writes:

I remembered that not tell you about the public transport of the city. Urgently corrected! Last year, Algeria launched a subway, light rail and new trains. All this is combined into a single system. It turns out very cool and comfortable. So far, very few lines, but still ahead. Light Rail and Metro will be a real salvation for the city, which is constantly in traffic.

Let's start with the Metro. Azhir only African country except Egypt, where there is the subway. Algiers Metro recently opened on November 1, 2011. Plans to build a subway in Algiers emerged in the 1970s due to the demographic boom in the city and increased requirements for the urban public transport. The official start of works was announced in 1982, in 1985, but then oil prices fell, and the money ran out. In the 1990s. the project was resumed. As a result, it only added two in the past year.
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01. On the descent escalators usually do not. We have for a long narrow staircase to go.



02. Lobby underground.



03. It is very cool about rodazhe ticket machines, not what our metal coffins. Katz buys a ticket.



04. Turnstiles.



05. The stations are all the same.



06. Driving station. All stations pink garbage bags.



07. Train.



08. Interior.



09. Metropolitan allow to transport 41 thousand. People. per hour, i.e. 150 mln. People. in year. Estimated range of motion - 2 minutes. Train speed - 70 km / h. Metro runs from 5 am to 11 pm.



10. ground lobby.



11. Bus stops.



12. However, the steepest in Algeria - a tram! Streetcar system partially put into operation May 8, 2011. Now there are 13 stations.



13. The Algerians have bought a very cool low-floor trams Alstom Citadis 302. These trams are used in France (Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Montpellier, etc..), The Netherlands (Rotterdam), Ireland (Dublin), Australia (Melbourne), and others.



14. It should be like a tram, not our rattling metal boxes. This branch of the tram can carry ~ 7 000 passengers per hour. Car Street is about the same width transports 700 passengers per hour.



15. Interior.



16. But the main thing - the construction of a branch of trams is 5-9 times cheaper than the subway line. That is, instead of, for example, 8 kilometers of subway in Omsk could be built ~ 56 kilometers of the tram.



17. Trams very fast. Ride it turns the speed comparable trip by car without traffic jams. And if there are traffic jams, the tram has no equal.



18. Ways are centered road, stops too. The cars left the place is very small.



19. Stop.



20. stops indicated time before the arrival of the tram. They go every 5 minutes, but with the growing passenger traffic, the intervals are reduced.



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22. plitochki is laid with love. Stop slightly raised when the tram stops, the train floor is obtained exactly at the stop level. You can safely go without steps.



23. Algerians promised that soon the tram tracks will look like this:



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