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The Drumul Taberei metro (Highway 5) is one month old since it was put into operation. Unlike the other roads, which are crowded at rush hour, the trains run emptier on Camp Road. Digi24.ro asked Metrorex for some traffic data for the first month of operation. The contribution of Highway 5 to underground transportation in the Capital is negligible, for the moment.
Metrorex does not record the number of passengers passing through the metro stations, but rather the number of magnetic card validations. With this specification, Metrorex relayed to Digi24.ro that between September 16 and October 8, 201,980 swipe card validations were recorded on Highway 5.
The daily average of the validations registered on Highway 5 is 8,416, but there are references between weekdays and weekends. Thus, from Monday to Friday, the daily average exceeds 10,000 validations, states Metrorex. In addition, the weekly average of the validations registered on Highway 5 is 50,495.
The busiest interval of the day on Highway 5 is in the morning, from 8:00 to 9:00, when approximately 2,600 validations are performed.
The busiest day of the week is Wednesday, with around 11,300 validations.
Wait times also vary, depending on the time of day (peak hours, normal hours). The traffic interval is 6 minutes in the Heroes 2 – Novelists section during peak hours and 9-10 minutes the rest of the day.
Compared to the traffic on the other roads, Drumul Taberei still does not contribute significantly to underground transport in Bucharest. Before the start of the health crisis, approximately 650,000 validations were carried out daily in the Bucharest metro.
These values have decreased tenfold during the state of emergency, but since we have been on alert, the numbers have started to rise again.
According to the latest data provided by Metrorex, it has now reached half the traffic before the pandemic, some 320,000 daily validations.
Drumul Taberei metro can help 150,000 Bucharest residents
The Drumul Taberei metro (the Râul Doamnei – Eroilor section), inaugurated in September, serves 150,000 inhabitants of the Capital who live near the ten newly created stations. 20,000 employees of companies based in office buildings located in the Héroes – Progreso – Politécnico areas can get to the office faster, according to an analysis by a real estate consultancy.
“Around each of the Râul Doamnei, Constantin Brâncuşi, Valea Ialomiţei and Romancierilor metro stations, located at the western end of the new metro line, live between 18,000 and 22,000 people who can access the metro within 10 minutes of walking bottom. At the opposite extreme, the residential density decreases to 8,000 – 10,000 inhabitants around the Orizont stations, the Military Academy and the Heroes, but instead these areas represent development poles in the office segment. In the extended area of these Metro stations, including projects in the Progreso area (AFI Tech Park and Green Gate) and the Polytechnic (Campus 6, The Light) buildings with a cumulative leasable area of 191,000 square meters are located within which, Under normal circumstances, between 18,000 and 20,000 employees work ”, say the experts at Cushman & Wakefield Echinox.
The 7-kilometer highway and 10 stations
The M5 is the only metro line built after the Revolution and should have been ready in 2015.
Metro line 5 has 10 stations, in a 7 km route: The Râul Doamnei – Eroilor (PS Opera) section consists of 10 metro stations and a depot: Râul Doamnei, Constantin Brâncuşi, Valea Ialomiţei, Romancierilor, Parc Drumul Taberei, Tudor Vladimirescu, Favorite, Horizon, Military Academy, Heroes 2.
The Râul Doamnei – Eroilor section, including the Valea Ialomiţei station and depot, was financed with external non-reimbursable funds (85%) and from the state budget (15%). The value of the project was more than 3.2 billion lei.
