"In less than 5 years, we have completed almost 66 kilometers of subway and opened it to the service of our people," said Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Mayor. Ekrem İmamoğlu, “These are all tasks that can be completed without any problems, with calculations, books and planning. There are those who take this job lightly. People who underestimated this work unfortunately turned it into 10 stopped metro lines. We take this job seriously. Serious work can be done by highly serious people.
That's why we don't show off; We are building the subway. Or we don't spray it into the air; We are building the subway. Also, we are building the metro for the people of Istanbul, not for those who voted for us the most. We will continue this too. "Hopefully, together we will create an Istanbul with subways under Istanbul, railways laid with rails, large underground lines, and a metro network of over 700 kilometers," he said.
İmamoğlu continued his words as follows: “In March, we will open two metro lines along with this line. We will bring our people together with the metro journey here for the valuable people of our three districts, Sancaktepe, Sultanbeyli and Çekmeköy. An important line. Sometimes they always say, 'We started the subway!' There is a tender and a progress of 3-4 percent... This means a company that has won the tender and the company that won the tender settling on the construction site. This is the current situation when we take over. And the process from this situation to today works as follows: As soon as we took office, we started by preparing the first dimension of the financing required for this metro line in just 4 months. We started here at the end of 2019, that is, at the beginning of 2020. In other words, we started from scratch and thank God, when we reach our 4th year, we will have opened a large part of it to the service of our citizens. We will open all of them in the 5th year. "We will introduce this line, which has a serious travel capacity, to our citizens, including Sultanbeyli, in just one year."