November 19 is an anniversary day for Metrorex S.A., the company that operates the Bucharest metro, the efficient public transportation system serving Romania’s capital.
This year marks 46 years since the Bucharest metro opened its doors to journeys through the city’s underground public transportation network, which is constantly being expanded and improved.
How else could a transport company that has served people for almost half a century celebrate this anniversary, if not together with its passengers?
Mariana Miclăuș, General Director of Metrorex, sends a message to everyone who brings the Bucharest metro to life:
“The metro is more than a transport solution – it is a living organism, built by people for people.
Every train that leaves a station, every passenger who reaches their destination and every day on which the network runs safely are the result of responsible and dedicated work.
I would like to thank all my colleagues for their professionalism. Each of them has an essential role, and every contribution counts.
I would like to thank our loyal passengers, who give us their trust day after day, and our partners, who support us in developing and maintaining a fast, safe and efficient transport service.
I would like to thank the enthusiasts, the eager, the children and the families who visited our Central Control Center. Your presence has shown us that the metro remains an important part of city life.
For me, the metro is home. I have spent my entire career here and I have grown, professionally and as a person, alongside extraordinary people.
We will continue to modernise, to develop and to offer our passengers safety, comfort and confidence.
Happy anniversary, Metrorex!”
On November 16, Metrorex held an Open Day at the Metrorex Central Control Center – the place where train movements and the entire flow of the metro network are coordinated in real time. To the delight of Metrorex representatives, hundreds of loyal passengers, enthusiasts and curious visitors passed the threshold of this special space and showed their joy. Metrorex staff were pleasantly surprised by the enormous public interest in discovering what goes on behind the scenes of the metro and in better understanding the everyday work behind every safe journey.
The company’s General Director, Mariana Miclăuș, welcomed those who were seeing for the first time the place from which the capital’s entire metro network is coordinated. The emotion, the smiles and the surprise shown by the guests offered positive energy to Metrorex staff, confirming once again that every effort is justified when you work and build for people.
M6 Metro Line is one of the recent achievements currently under construction, and will provide, along a route of 14.2 km of double track, the direct link from Gara de Nord to Henri Coandă International Airport in Otopeni. At this anniversary moment, the future line has reached over 52% completion of the structural works on the SOUTH Section, the 1 Mai – Tokyo stretch, and over 34% on the NORTH Section, the Tokyo – Aeroport Otopeni stretch.
M6 Metro Line will be connected to the existing metro network operated by Metrorex S.A., to the metropolitan surface transport network and to the national rail and air transport networks. The 12 stations of the new line are being built in key areas of interest between the current 1 Mai station and Otopeni Airport. The main areas the new line will serve are: 1 Mai, Romexpo, Gara de Nord and Băneasa Airport, the residential, retail and business areas along the DN1 between Bucharest and Otopeni, the town of Otopeni and the arrivals and departures terminals of Otopeni International Airport.
At the metro station on the ring road (Bruxelles), the project provides for a “Park & Ride” car park with approximately 500 spaces, where drivers will be able to leave their cars and continue their journey by metro.
M6 Metro Line, on which 12 new trains will run, contributes to the expansion of the existing safe, environmentally friendly and modern transport network, which will improve mobility for the population of the Bucharest metropolitan area and of the town of Otopeni. It is the first fast, direct link between Gara de Nord and Otopeni Airport, integrating regional air, rail and road transport flows.
Beyond these benefits, M6 Metro Line contributes to the development of the suburban areas and supports the promotion of the residential, retail, business and leisure areas between Băneasa and Otopeni. A fast, convenient and safe transport solution for locals and tourists alike, the future metro line will provide a mobility corridor between the two airports and the city centre, will reduce road traffic and will bring improved environmental conditions, along with lower noise, pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
The future M6 Metro Line is further proof of how Metrorex takes on its mission towards people and towards Bucharest, a European capital. And that is what makes 46 years of the metro in Bucharest an anniversary to be celebrated together with the travelling public.
Happy anniversary to all our passengers!
