Casablanca tramway
location
Casablanca / Morocco
client
Casablanca Transport SA
mission
architect for the installation of a 31km long ‘Y’ shaped tramway system, associated streetscape and landscaping, maintenance depot
cost
484,5 M€
consortium
Systra / CID / Systra Maroc + Richez_Associés
project management assistance
Aeysa + Transurb Technirail + ADI
stations design
Nejari + Richez_Associés
Second prize « Worldwide light rail project of the year, 2012 »,
Light Rail Awards hosted by the British Light Rail Transit Association,
in association with the magazine « Tramways & Urban Transit »
Press
Line 1 of Casablanca’s tramway gives Morocco’s biggest city its first high-quality public transport service. - but it is also, as in Bordeaux, Casablanca’s twinned city, an important contribution to improving the quality of the city’s urban environment Its installation included the planting of generous lines of palm trees, echoing the boulevards that are the image of the city.
The tramlines run on a ground surface of burnt sienna tinted concrete - the colour of the city and its beach. Of course, Casablanca’s magnificent art deco neighbourhood which is worthy of UNESCO world heritage site classification, has also been restructured, restored and pedestrianised.