It will be 2 hours and 15 minutes by high speed train between Bursa and Ankara

Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Adil Karaismailoğlu attended the ceremony of seeing the light of the Osmaneli - Bursa - Balıkesir high-speed train line project T04 tunnel. Minister Karaismailoğlu said, "When the project is completed, the rail travel between Ankara - Bursa and Bursa - Istanbul by high-speed trains will be approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes in an uninterrupted, fast and comfortable way."

Karaismailoğlu attended the light-seeing ceremony of the 500-meter-long T4 tunnel, which is under construction near the Osmaneli district of Bilecik, of the Osmaneli - Bursa - Balıkesir high-speed train line project. Stating that they continue the construction of the Osmaneli - Bursa - Balıkesir high-speed train project, which is the important railway project of the Southern Marmara Line, Karaismailoğlu shared the following information:

“Our 24 billion lira high-speed train project is 201 kilometers long. While our physical progress has reached 56 percent in the 84-kilometer Bursa – Yenişehir section, we continue our infrastructure works. The project works have been completed in the 95-kilometer Balıkesir-Bursa section and the 50-kilometer Yenişehir-Osmaneli section.

Superstructure and electromechanical works of Bursa - Yenişehir - Osmaneli section and infrastructure works of Yenişehir - Osmaneli section are progressing rapidly. When our project is completed, with high speed trains; The rail journey between Ankara - Bursa and Bursa - Istanbul will be approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes in an uninterrupted, fast and comfortable way. In the excavation works of our T04 tunnel; We carried out 612 cubic meters of soil movement. We have completed 140 thousand meters of ground improvement. We will finish our work in 7 years by continuing our work 24 hours a day, 2.5 days a week.”