Rapidly expanding Metro opens Line 7

June 16, 2017

Twenty-two kilometers of Metro Line 7 (70 percent of the total line to be constructed) were officially inaugurated Saturday.

“Line 7 is the deepest among the metro lines in the city and has the longest tunnel. The line has intersections at all the six other subway lines,” Maziar Hossaini, Tehran deputy mayor for traffic and transport, said.

Once completed in March 2018, Line 7 will be 31 kilometers long with 34 stations, he said, adding that the line’s shallowest depth is 14 meters and at its deepest 56 meters [184 feet].” Currently the deepest subway station in Tehran is Tajrish at 51 meters (167 feet).

Twenty trains of eight cars each will run on this line. Seven stations on the line have become operational at Sanat Square, Tarbiat Moddares University, Shahid Navvab-e Safavi, Komeil, Beryanak, Moham-madiyeh Square, and Basij.

The city’s subway system comprises six operational lines (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 – lines 3 and 7 have yet to be completed) with nearly 100 stations. Line 6 is still under construction.

In June 2016, the Tehran Urban and Suburban Railway Company announced that Line 6 would be completed by September 2017.

The time interval between trains is not the same for all Metro lines. While the minimum time interval between trains on Line 1 (Kahrizak-Tajrish) is around two minutes, it is longer for Line 3 (more than 10 minutes). On holidays, people have to wait more than 15 minutes for a train on Line 3.

The subway carries more than 3 million passengers a day. The ticket price is fixed for each journey, regardless of the distance traveled, but using prepaid tickets (in the form of electronic cards) costs much less. On all Tehran Metro trains, the first, second and the last cars are reserved for women. Train services start at 5:30 a.m. and run until 11 p.m.