Anyway I went over to Souq Al Nejada to see how its development was doing. It's coming along nicely, it looks like it will focus on selling carpets.
It also appears that the plaza is over the Souq Waqif metro station, which is part of the Gold Line.
The Gold Line is set to open sometime between now and the end of 2020 but I'm going to say it won't be open in the next few months for sure. The Souq Waqif station still has a lot of work to do, and it was the same at Al Sadd Station when I drove by there the other day.
But the Green line looks a lot more further along. I was at Al Bidda Station (both the Green and Red line go through there) and they were testing trains on the Green line, including the information signs. So I expect in the next few months some or all of the Green line will become operational, at a minimum I figure the Mansoura to Education City section. It would make sense to try to have that ready for September when students head back to the Universities.
Qatar Rail's website is silent on upcoming openings but that's my guess: Green Line by September, Gold Line much later.
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The wikipedia page Doha Metro has dates...
Deadlines are a "flexible" thing in Qatar but it is good that what wiki has is in line with what I'm figuring, as the projection is July/August for the Green Line. Here's hoping. I recall last December there was a big announcement that the Red line would open around National Day (December 18th of last year) but then that got pushed and the actual opening was five months later.
December/January for the Gold line might be optimistic, there's still a lot of scaffolding and construction going on at the Gold stations when I have passed by them.
Well it's September and still no Green Line. However it looks like someone at Doha Metro has been keeping the wiki page updated so the current projection is for later this month. Here's hoping.
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