page_title: Ankara Metro
section_title: Ankara Metro
hierarchical_section_title: Ankara Metro / History / Ankara Metro
caption_attribution_description: A photo of the Kızılay station of Ankara Metro
context_page_description: The Ankara Metro is the rapid transit system serving Ankara, the capital of Turkey. At present, Ankara's rapid transit system consists of two metro lines – the Batıkent Metrosu and the new Keçiören Metrosu line opened in 2017, along with the light rail Ankaray line. The Ankaray, the M1 and M4 lines, together transported 104.1 million passengers in 2014. That corresponds to a ridership of approximately 289,155 per day.
  In February 2019 all the lines that used to run M1, M2 and M3 were merged to create one line, M1.
  The Kızılay to Atatürk Cultural Center link of M4 is not yet opened and remains under construction. Also, an additional line between Kuyubaşı and Esenboğa International Airport is in the planning stages and would make up the next phase of expansion of the metro.
context_section_description: The Ankara Metro has been operating since 29 December 1997, with the opening of its first full metro line, M1, traveling between Kızılay, the city center, and Batıkent. The M2 line, operating from Kızılay, the city center, to Koru, opened 12 February 2014. The M3 line, which serves almost as an extension of the M1 line, operating from Batıkent to Törekent, opened a month later on 13 March 2014. For the first few years of operations on lines M2 and M3, both of them ran separately from the M1 line; since early 2019, the three lines are operated as one continuous service (M1) between Törekent and Koru.
  The M4 line, operating from Atatürk Cultural Center to Gazino, opened on 5 January 2017.
  In 2019 Turisk defense firm ASELSAN began traction and control upgrades on the older Bombardier cars.
caption: Kızılay subway station
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