Rapid transit system under construction in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Métro d'Abidjan
Overview
Native name
Métro d'Abidjan
Locale
Abidjan
Transit type
Rapid transit
Number of lines
1
Number of stations
20
Operation
Operation will start
2025
Technical
System length
37.5 km (23 mi 24 ch)
Track gauge
1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification
Yes
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The Abidjan Metro (French: Métro d'Abidjan) is a 37.5-kilometre (23.3 mi) rapid transit network under construction serving the Ivorian economic capital of Abidjan. Construction of the network started in November 2017,[1] with the beginning of passenger service originally expected in 2022–2023,[2] but has since been delayed to at least 2025.[3] Initially planned to comprise a single line with 13 stations undertaken by Bouygues-Dongsan, a French-Korean consortium,[4][5][6][7][8] the project has since then been expanded to a single north–south line with 20 stations, financed 100% by France and built solely by three French groups (Bouygues, through its subsidiaries Bouygues Travaux Publics and Colas Rail, Alstom, and Keolis) after the withdrawal of the South Korean partners from the consortium in October 2017.[1]
Built mostly as an overground and elevated railway in order to avoid more costly tunnels, its automated trains with a driver present in the cabin will be able to run at a top speed of 80 km/h (50 miles/hour) and a maximum frequency of about every 2 minutes.[9] Line 1 of the Abidjan metro is expected to transport 500,000 passengers per day (180 million per year).[9] Construction of line 1 will cost 920 billion CFA francs (1.4 billion euros; 1.7 billion US dollars), entirely financed by France via the French Treasury and the French Development Agency.[10]
In 2018 the Ivorian government was planning for a second line of the Abidjan Metro, an east–west line which would run from Yopougon to Bingerville.[10]
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^"Infrastructures économiques : Tout savoir sur le métro d'Abidjan". 12 May 2017.
^"Ivory Coast launches construction of metro project". www.africanews.com. 20 December 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
^"Abidjan to have modern metro system by 2020". News Ghana. 2015-07-07. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
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