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How much did the six-line Riyadh Metro network in Saudi Arabia cost to build?

The Riyadh Metro is a six-line, 85-station driverless metro network owned by the Royal Commission for Riyadh City, with lines 1 and 2 under Capital Metro Co and lines 3 to 6 under the FLOW consortium of FS Italiane, Alstom and Ansaldo STS, opened in stages: the Blue, Yellow and Purple lines on 1 December 2024, the Red and Green lines on 15 December 2024 and the Orange Line on 5 January 2025. Newsweek reported on 29 November 2024 that the project cost USD 22.5 billion, and Railway Gazette says the network's overall budget was EUR 16.3 billion in 2013.