The Nur-Sultan light metro is a system of elevated off-street light metro under construction in the city of Nur-Sultan , Kazakhstan .
| Nur-Sultan Easy Metro | |
|---|---|
| Description | |
| A country |  Kazakhstan |
| Location |  Nur-Sultan |
| opening date | December 2019 (possible) |
| Daily passenger traffic | 83000 |
| Annual passenger traffic | 3.5 million |
| Route network | |
| Number of lines | one |
| Number of stations | 18 |
| Network length | 22.4 km |
After considering various alternative options, including the usual underground metro and monorail , in 2005 the city akimat (mayor's office) adopted the program “Astana's new transport system”, which stipulated that, in order to optimize the costs, the city’s off-street and street transport would predominantly above ground and above ground.
The system of high-speed transport in the capital of Kazakhstan should also include the route of high-speed multisection low-floor buses of high-speed communication (BRT) 10 km long, which will connect the center and eastern microdistricts.
The construction of the system was scheduled to begin in 2008 , but was postponed. The approval of the project to start the implementation occurred in the 4th quarter of 2009. On July 4, 2011, the formal commencement of construction was held, the first phase was to be built in 2.5 years. However, the real work has not been started.
In November 2013, Nursultan Nazarbayev announced his refusal to build LRT because of the high cost of living. Instead, promised to launch high-speed buses [1] .
On May 7, 2015, the Framework Agreement on the implementation of the project “New Transport System of Astana City. LRT. Stage 1 between the city akimat represented by Astana LRT LLP and the Consortium of China Railway International Group Limited and Beijing State-Owned Assets Management Co., Ltd. The agreement provides for an agreement of the parties on the joint and further construction of the LRT light rail system [2] .
Construction began formally in May 2017. The active phase began in the autumn of 2017, however, according to the testimony of journalists, the work on the three developed construction sites is very sluggish [3] [4] .