Following a meeting with the Qom urban management, Iran’s Interior Minister has announced that Qom monorail will replace Metro Line B.
Ahmad Vahidi made the remarks on the sidelines of a meeting held with the presence of the mayor of Qom, Dr. Seyyed Morteza Saghaeiannejad, Qom’s representative in the Iranian parliament, Hojatoleslam Mojtaba Zulnouri, Managing Director of Urban Train Organization and other city managers.
Qom monorail can replace Metro Line B and extend to the city of Pardisan, Vahidi said in an interview on Thursday.
The Minister of Interior, along with other city managers, also discussed the significant issues related to the Qom metro project.
He referred to supplying metro cars as one of the important issues, saying that five options were proposed in the meeting.
Earlier, the mayor of Qom had stated that the Iranian government can only make a final decision about the monorail destiny.
To complete the project, we need 12,000 billion rials, which neither the municipality nor the government can provide in the current situation, Dr. Saghaeiannejad noted.
The construction of Qom’s monorail system was part of a nationally-coordinated plan to ease traffic congestion in Iran’s major cities.
The project, Iran’s first monorail system, was being implemented by a joint venture of MAPNA Group and Kayson Company within the framework of an EPC contract.