Subway of Tbilissi

The Métro of Tbilissi (in géorgien თბილისისმეტროპოლიტენი, tbilisis metropoliteni ) is one of the means of tranport jointly of the town of Tbilissi, capital of the Georgia. The first named line Gldani-Varketili was open on January 11th 1966. It connected the stations Didube and Rustaweli and was at the time the fourth subway of Soviet Union. In 2001 the subway of Tbilissi transported 105,4 million passengers.

The network

The subway includes/understands today 2 lines an overall length of 26,4 km including/understanding 22 stations of which 20 are underground.

All the stations are conceived to be able to receive oars of 5 cars. Currently it circulates only of the oars from 3 to 4 cars. The trains circulate between 6:00 of the morning and 1:00; during the rush hour it passes a train every 2,5 minutes, the remainder of time every 4 minutes. The oars circulate on ways with the spacing broad Russian; the power supply is made by Conductor rail into 825 Volt.

History

After an intensive industrialization in the years 1940 the population of Tbilissi strongly increased. The grid system of the city was to be rebuilt. The department of public transport of the city worked on the plan of a subway on the model of what had been done in Kiev.

Work started in 1952. They progressed slowly because the mountainous relief made difficult the digging of the tunnels. In January 1966 the fourth subway of the Soviet Union after those of Moscow, Saint-Petersbourg and Kiev was inaugurated. The first underground line made 6,3 km length and went from Didube to Rustaweli and comprised 6 stations. The stations Didube and Elektrodepo were on the surface. Two years later, in 1967, the line was prolonged towards the south to the station 300 Aragweli ; the new section included/understood 3 stations. After a prolongation in 1971,1985 and 1989 the line counted 19,6 km and 16 stations. The line Didube-Samgore" goes today from the station Teatr Achmeteli to the station Warketeli .

Second line a 5,8 km long could be completed in 1979 afterwards of prolonged work. This line goes from Wagslis Moedani to Delisi . There is a correspondence with the other line at the station Wagslis Moedani close to the main station of Tbilissi. The line bears the name of Saburtalinskaja or also Ligne of Saburtalo .

After the fall of the Soviet Union Georgia declared its independence. Several stations were renamed in 1992. The line Didube-Samgorskaja itself was renamed Gldani-Warketili . Independence also brought serious money worries and today still the power supply of the subway is not always assured.

An extension of the network is not possible under these conditions. The subway is the place of an important criminality (flights of bags) and the accidents are numerous. There was also an attack with the grenade in 2000 and one attack with teargases in 2004. Despite everything since the pink revolution criminality strongly decreased.

In 2000 a prolongation on the line Saburtalo between the stations Viktor Goziridse and Wascha-Pschawela , of 1 km length, could be inaugurated.

Constructions in progress and planned

In 2004 the Georgian president announced the modernization of the network of subway. The stations, after decades of negligence, were to be put at the European standard. The old Soviet oars must be given to new by the companies Nadsladewi and Gldani. They are 212 cars, which should be revised from here 2007.

In addition 2 sections are in construction: the red line must be prolonged to the station Université of Tiflis from here 2011. A third line should be built between Rustaweli and Wasisubani .

External bonds

Official site
the subway of Tbilissi on urbanrail.net

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