M6 is an under construction metro line of the

Bucharest Metro The Bucharest Metro () is an underground rapid transit system that serves Bucharest, the capital of Romania. It first opened for service on 16 November 1979. The network is run by Metrorex. One of two parts of the larger Transport in Bucharest, B ...

. The M6 Line will connect

Bucharest North railway station Bucharest North railway station (; officially Bucharest North Group A; colloquially ''Gara de Nord'') is the main railway station in Bucharest and the largest railway station in Romania. The vast majority of mainline trains to and from Bucharest ...

() to

Henri Coandă International Airport Henri is the French form of the masculine given name Henry, also in Estonian, Finnish, German and Luxembourgish. Bearers of the given name include: People French nobles * Henri I de Montmorency (1534–1614), Marshal and Constable of France * ...

(). The line is expected to be completed by 2028. As of 2019, only the section from 1 Mai station to Tokyo station had secured funding. On March 8, 2022, the contract for construction was signed; the contract for the second section — from Tokyo station to the airport — was signed on May 2, 2023. Construction work has effectively started on December 15, 2023, for the first section between the 1 Mai station of M4 and the future Tokyo station.

Cost

The construction of the new line is estimated to cost around

€ The euro sign () is the currency sign used for the euro, the official currency of the eurozone. The design was presented to the public by the European Commission on 12 December 1996. It consists of a stylized letter E (or epsilon), crossed by t ...

1.2 billion. The

Japan Bank for International Cooperation The , JBIC, is a Japanese public financial institution and export credit agency that was created on October 1, 1999, through the merger of the Japan Export-Import Bank (JEXIM) and the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF). JBIC became the ...

is financing the project with €300 million.Metrorex demarează licitațiile pentru linia de metrou către Aeroportul Otopeni

Stations

The M6 Line will have a total of 16 stations: 4 stations shared with the existing M4 Line and 12 planned new stations: Pajura, Expoziției, Piața Montreal, Gara Băneasa, Aeroport Băneasa, Tokyo, Washington, Paris, Bruxelles, Otopeni, Ion I.C. Brătianu, and Aeroport Otopeni.

References

Bucharest Metro Lines Proposed rail infrastructure in Romania {{Bucharest-metro-stub