Shiraz Metro

The Tehran Metro is known as Iran's premier metro but I was surprised to learn many more towns had metros. Shiraz is building its own two line metro. Line 1 is complete and line 2 under development. Again this is not the image of a country under 45 years of sanctions to be building so many metro lines when Toronto is 5 years behind opening the Eglinton line.

Exiting

Station Entrance

Station Sign

Station Map

Ticket is $0.10 cents US again making it very affordable. This station is known for its use of local bricks in its architecture

I like to see unique station designs but this did not have any Iranian tilework such as they had in the Tashkent metro in Uzbekistan using local patterns.

Rather they had lots of large prints of some of the local sights of the town and close to this station stop

Trains run at 15 min intervals as the line is still not that busy and practical to more parts of the city

We got off at the transfer station to see the new line but it was closed off with more poster drapes of large pictures so we looked around and went back to the train