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Article: Turkish transit, Toronto style. (Canadian firms construct Ankara, Turkey, transit systems)
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- Railway Age
- Article date:
- August 1, 1994
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In 1923, Kemal Ataturk, the founder and first president of the new Republic of Turkey, made the ancient city of Ankara the capital of the new nation. Then a sleepy provincial crossroads in central Anatolia Of fewer than 30,000 inhabitants, Ankara has found that things have never been the same since.
As modern Turkey has grown, so has its capital. Once planned to grow to 300,000, Ankara soon drew up new plans for a city of 1.5 million, and then discarded those as well. Today, the city's population has passed the three million mark, and its growth shows no signs of abating. Not unexpectedly, this surge in population has brought with it some increasingly intractable ...