The subway system in Istanbul was initiated in 1992 and was completed in 2000. The first line between Taksim and 4th Levent went into service on September 16, 2000. This line is 8.5 km long and has 6 stations, which all look similar but are in different colors. Currently there are 8 French built 4-car trains in service, which run every 5 minutes on average and transport 130,000 passengers daily. A trip along the entire line takes 12 minutes. The entire subway was built by the cut-and-cover method to withstand an earthquake of up to 9.0 on the Richter magnitude scale (Metro stations are: 4.Levent, Levent, Gayrettepe, Şişli, Osmanbey, Taksim) Istanbul (Turkish: see other names) is Turkeys most populous city, and its cultural, and economic centre. ...

The second section of the metro from Taksim to Yenikapı, across the Golden Horn on a bridge and underground through the old city, is under construction. It will be 5.4 km long with 4 stations. At Yenikapı it will intersect with the extended light metro and with the suburban train. Later it will be extended northwards from 4th Levent to Ayazaga, which is expected to be finished in February 2006.

In Asiatic side the construction of metro which's from Kadikoy to Kartal still continues.

A new underwater tunnel project Marmaray is being built to connect the European and Anatolian side of the city. Marmaray is the name for a project to link the European and Anatolian halves of Istanbul by an undersea rail tunnel across the Bosphorus strait. ... This article is about the continent. ... Anatolian can refer to: Someone or something from Anatolia The Anatolian Shepherd Dog This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...