Baghdad Invited Bids To Build Metro
RFE/RL "Green Line to Sadr City"
The Baghdad mayor's office has invited international companies to bid to build two metro lines crossing the war-battered Iraqi capital. The first line should have 20 stations and run 18 kilometers from the giant Shi'ite Muslim slum of Sadr City in the city's northeast to the largely Sunni district of Adhamiyah in its northwest, a statement on a government website said. The second line would be 21 kilometers long and have 21 stations between upscale Mansour district in the west and the equally upper-middle-class area of Mesbah in the east.
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"It's a daydream," said Salah Abdul-Razzaq, the governor of Baghdad Province, whose office is separate from the mayor's. "It is costly, we would need billions of dollars," he said, arguing instead for the construction of a monorail.