Mecca Metro

Mecca Metro is the biggest ever single order for platform screen doors in the history of Knorr-Bremse’s subsidiary Westinghouse Platform Screen Doors.

The new metro will link the cities of Mecca, Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifah and should help them to cope with the traffic during the festival of Hajj – the pilgrimage that brings three million Moslems to Mecca every year.

The first of a total of five new metro lines is scheduled to go into operation next year in time for the Hajj in November 2010. It will reach its full capacity by 2011, by which time it will be capable of transporting at least half a million pilgrims per day and see an expected 50% reduction in road vehicle usage.