Metro São Paulo have responded to criticism published in O Estado, insisting that the Line 17 (Gold) project is on track to be operational by the end of 2016, explaining the additional costs involved in current monorail projects, and making assurances regarding the operation of Line 15 (Silver), though admitting initial train speeds are lower than was first presented.
São Paulo’s silver-15 Line, Brazil’s first monorail, began limited operations this week, connecting Ipiranga and Cidade Tiradentes stations. At present, trains will only use two of the eighteen eventual stations, running a 2.9km stretech between Oratory and Villa Prudente. When Line 15 is complete and fully operational, 500,000 people are expected to travel on the full 26.6km route daily.
In the first in a series of interviews with the leaders of Latin Americas most important transport projects, we sat down with the General Manager of the Medellin Metro to discuss new metro, tram, metrocable and monorail projects, technology upgrades, supporting the Bogota Metro and TransCaribe and the role the metro has played in Medellin’s development.
Luis Castañeda Lossio, the mayor of the Peruvian capital, has confirmed that the metropolitan municipality will be unable to fund the cities proposed monorail network, and the project must solely funded through private investment if it is to proceed. “The municipality does not have the economic capacity to do this, we all know it and we know it very well”, the mayor of Lima explained.
British companies have expressed an interest in the planned lines 3 and 4 of Metro de Lima, as well as the proposed ‘Tren Macho’ route,…
The Urban Development Corporation (EDU) are now looking for private investment as mayor Aníbal Gaviria announces that the cities ‘Fund for Life’ will finance the…
Medellin’s metro system has been the cornerstone of the cities revival, as what was once the world’s most dangerous city has been transformed into the…
Paulo Sergio Amalfi Meca, head of construction at Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo, provides a detailed overview of the Line 15 monorail project and explains…
