Cluj-Napoca is the second city in Romania that will have a metro, after the capital Bucharest.
The total duration of the contract is 96 months. The deadline for submission of offers was February 28, 2023, with two offers being submitted.
According to the mayor's office, among the projects carried out by the winning bidder are the construction of the Istanbul Otogar-Bağcılar Public Transport Railway System, and the design and construction of metro lines in Warsaw.
Gülermak Ağır Sanayi İnşaat ve Taahhüt A Ş. is a Turkish construction company, especially for rail transport, established in 1958. Over the years, it has executed subway, tunnel, railway, bridge, viaduct, and power plant works in Poland, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, India, and Turkey. Projects include the $2.8 billion Dubai Metro line for Expo 2020.
The company has a subsidiary that is Turkey's leader in steel production, having three factories in Ankara and Izmir.
Metro line 1 is a 21.03 km long light metro line with 19 underground stations and 1 above-ground depot, in "rail" technology, with a nominal/maximum transport capacity at 90-sec intervals: 15,200/21,600 passengers/hour and direction (40 trains/hour and direction).
The route of the light metro line starts from the new residential area in Florești. The first three stations serve medium-density residential areas in Florești, and then stations 4 and 5 serve multifunctional areas developed around the anchors of the future regional emergency hospital and the Vivo shopping center respectively. Stations 6, 7, and 8 serve the Mănăștur neighborhood, and then the line follows the west-east highway, crossing the city center, to Piața Mărăști. From here, a branch of the line continues towards the Boulevard Muncii industrial area, ensuring the connection with the railway and the future metropolitan train service, and another branch serves the neighborhoods of Gheorgheni and Sopor, where the above-ground depot is also located.
The entire line is underground, except for the transition connection near the depot.
