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{{Short description|Tbilisi Metro line}}
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| name                            = Saburtalo Line
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| depot                           = Nazaladevi Electrodepot
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The '''Saburtalo Line''' ({{lang-ka|საბურთალოს ხაზი|tr}}) is a line of the [[Tbilisi Metro]] in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]. The line was first opened in 1979,<ref name="urbanrail">{{cite web |last1=Schwandl |first1=Robert |title=Tbilisi |url=https://www.urbanrail.net/as/tbil/tbilisi.htm |publisher=urbanrail}}</ref> running originally from [[Station Square (Tbilisi Metro)|Station Square]], where [[Tbilisi railway station|Tbilisi Central Railway station]] is located to [[Delisi (Tbilisi Metro)|Delisi]] and has since extended to the western residential districts of the [[Tbilisi|city]], near [[Tbilisi State University]]’s X and XI buildings.<ref name="State University Metro" /> It is a second line of the system and runs from the east and west direction of [[Tbilisi]], in contrast to the [[Akhmeteli-Varketili Line|First Line]] which runs north-south axis of the city. The line is named after [[Saburtalo District|Saburtalo]],<ref>{{cite journal |last=Dala Costa |first=Augusto |date=2020 |title=Toponymy and the issues of memory and identity on the post-Soviet Tbilisi cityscape |url= |journal=Ideology and Politics Journal |volume=1 |issue=15 |doi=10.36169/2227-6068.2020.01.00007 |access-date=}}</ref> the district, and neighbourhood of Tbilisi, where 5{{efn|These are [[Technical University (Tbilisi Metro)|Technical University]], [[Medical University (Tbilisi Metro)|Medical University]], [[Delisi (Tbilisi Metro)|Delisi]], [[Vazha-Pshavela (Tbilisi Metro)|Vazha-Pshavela]], and [[State University (Tbilisi Metro)|State University]] stations.}} of 7 stations of this line are located. Alternatively, the line is being referred to simply as '''2nd Line'''.

==History==
{| class="wikitable" style="border-collapse: collapse; text-align: left;"
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!Segment!!Date opened<ref name="urbanrail" />
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Station Square (Tbilisi Metro)|Station Square]]–[[Delisi (Tbilisi Metro)|Delisi]]
|September 22, 1979
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Delisi (Tbilisi Metro)|Delisi]]–[[Vazha-Pshavela (Tbilisi Metro)|Vazha-Pshavela]]
|April 3, 2000
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Vazha-Pshavela (Tbilisi Metro)|Vazha-Pshavela]]–[[State University (Tbilisi Metro)|State University]]
|October 16, 2017
|-
|}

===Name changes===
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!Station!!Previous name(s)!!Years
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Medical University (Tbilisi Metro)|Medical University]]
|Komkavshiri
|1979–1992
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Viktor Gotsiridze (Tbilisi Metro)|Viktor Gotsiridze]]
|Delisi
|1979–1995
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Delisi (Tbilisi Metro)|Delisi]]
|Viktor Gotsiridze
|1995–2006
|}

==Transfers==
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!#!!Transfer to!!At
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|style="background:#{{rcr|Tbilisi Metro|1}}; color:white"|'''1'''
|[[Akhmeteli–Varketili Line|Akhmeteli–Varketili Line (First Line)]]
|[[Station Square (Tbilisi Metro)|Station Square]]
|}

[[Station Square (Tbilisi Metro)|Station Square]] is the eastern terminus and the transfer station to the [[Akhmeteli-Varketili Line|First Line]]. The Station Square platforms of the Saburtalo line and the First line are placed parallel to each other and are connected by a 50-meter<ref name="urbanrail" /> relatively narrow corridor. Since [[Station Square (Tbilisi Metro)|Station Square]] is the terminus station of the Saburtalo line, the platform and transfer corridor at rush hours may be extremely congested.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://1tv.ge/lang/en/news/monitoring-staff-to-run-passenger-flow-in-metro-during-peak-hours/  |title=Monitoring staff to run passenger flow in metro during peak hours |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=28 September 2022 |website=1tv.ge |publisher=Georgian Public Broadcaster |access-date=18 August 2023 |quote=}}</ref>

==Rolling stock==
The line is served by the Nadzaladevi (No.1) depot. Currently, 9{{citation needed|date=April 2023}} four-carriage trains are assigned to it. All are the [[Metrovagonmash 81-717/81-714|81-714/717]] versions with .5 modifications. Additional Ema-502M cars were supplied, causing an inconsistency in the cars' design.

==Recent developments and potential expansions==
The western extension of the line has been frozen for some time before [[Vazha-Pshavela (Tbilisi Metro)|Vazha-Pshavela station]] opened in the year 2000. It was the first metro station to be opened in independent [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]. Construction of the [[State University (Tbilisi Metro)|State University station (Sakhelmtsipo Universiteti)]], which dates back to the Soviet era and was suspended for 22 years, was restarted in July 2015 and was completed in October 2017.<ref name="State University Metro">{{cite news| title=New University Metro station opens in Tbilisi | url=https://agenda.ge/en/news/2017/2248 | publisher=Agenda.ge | date=16 October 2017 | accessdate=22 September 2020}}</ref> In perspective, the line might continue to the east.

Older potential development plans included either making the Saburtalo line a circular line continuing in the east towards the direction of Sabcho (Nowadays, Chitaia) Square, Saarbrücken Square, and to [[Rustaveli (Tbilisi Metro)|Rustaveli]] station as a transfer station and then towards the direction of [[Vake, Tbilisi|Vake]] and back to [[Saburtalo District|Saburtalo]]. Alternative development option included continuing towards Kukia and eastern [[Tbilisi Sea]] settlements.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{in lang|ka}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928082129/http://www.metro.ge/ Metro Web-site (Archived)]
*{{in lang|en}} [http://www.urbanrail.net/as/tbil/tbilisi.htm Tbilisi Metro on Urbanrail.net]
*{{in lang|de|ru}} [http://www.metrosoyuza.net/ Metrosoyuza]
*{{in lang|ru}} [http://metroworld.ruz.net/others/tbilisi.htm Metroworld]
* [http://saktransporti.mashke.org/photo/ge-m-tbilisi/ya08/line2.htm Tbilisi Metro Line 2 (Anisimov, 2008)]

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