Algiers Metro

[yorktown]

Algiers Metro

-The civil works are executed by a group of Algerian-German business "Gaama" formed by the Algerian "Cosider and Genie Sider" and German "Dywidag International GmbH"
The French-Vinci, Alstom Transport and Systra system involved in the project management, automation equipment sets, signaling and electrification.
-Trains are CAF "Spanish"
-The metro will be managed by RATP el Djazair

Existing line:
- Great Post-Hai El Badr (9,8 km, 10 stations)

Lines under construction :
- Great Post - Place des Martyrs
- Hai El Badr - El Harrach Market
- Hai El Badr - Ain Nadjaa

[yorktown]

The Subway trains are CAF S-5000 same that used in Barcelona Metro
Some pics of Algiers subway trains

[Tony]

Hello Yorktown,

I am very interested by the fact that a metro is being constructed in Algiers. When I worked there in 1979/80 there wasn't even a decent bus service!
Why isn't the line going to the airport at Dar El Beida instead of stopping at Bab Ezzouar? The flats in Bab Ezzouar were being built when I worked at the airport.

[yorktown]

Hello tony, the project does not go to the airport for the moment, Governments have preferred that this connection will be made with a conveyance with a higher capacity (RER)

Indeed, a tender has been launched to connect the Airport to RER station at Bab Ezzouar who already exists (1.3 km from the airport) the RER starts in Algiers Centre and extends to Tizi Ouzou (Kabylie)

Here the map of current urban transport in Algiers without bus (RER-Metro-Tramway)

[yorktown]

Line 2 - El Harrach railway station : taken by Jeff Hawken

[yorktown]

Line 1 Extention (frome Place Emir Abdelkader to Place des martyres)
By GesiTP (Algeria), Andrades Gutierrez (Brazil) Zagope (Portugal)