The ride started from Ayrılıkçeşmesi station (older name İbrahimağa station) at the Asian side and ended at a distance of about on the European side crossing Bosphorus underwater, and then back.
Od konca leta 2009, je bilo pričakovati, da se bodo stroški povečali za približno 500 milijonov ameriških dolarjev zaradi arheoloških raziskovanj.