06/19/2024
The desire of see an elevated, or underground, subway rolling in Bogotá, It becomes increasingly tangible with the progress of the work, which on more than one occasion has pitted the Mayor’s Office against the National Government.
This Wednesday, the Mayor’s Office of the capital and the Bogotá Metro Company revealed several images of the wagons that will begin the operation of the mass transportation system that aims to be a relief for the chaotic mobility of the city.
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The trains, each composed of six carriages or cars, are red on the outside. Inside, the chairs in blocks of seven seats each on the sides are also painted the same color, with the exception of preferential placement for older adults, pregnant women and people with disabilities.
The cars also have a whole system of tubes for users to hold on to and also have extra handles, also red. The doors, for its part, They will all be glass and will open to the outside of the trains.
Total There are 30 trains with capacity for 300 people those that are being assembled in the port of Tianjin, in China, and that will arrive in the coming years to operate on the first line of the Bogotá Metro.
The color of these cars is different from that of the first train which was sent by the CRR firm (which assembles them in China) in 2020 and which officially became the first train of the Bogotá Metro. That train, lemon-colored, is located in the Children’s Park, to the west of the city, where residents of the capital can meet it and receive talks about the culture around a transportation system like this.
Metro works are progressing at 34.62%, ending May 31. Until that moment, property management was 98.98% advanced and 100% of the early transfer of networks was already done. Likewise, 51 columns and 23 capital beams and 1,791 piles are already completed, as well as 61 data and 155 supports completed.
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It is expected that the first line of the Bogotá metro, with 23.9 kilometers and 16 stations in the towns of Bosa, Kennedy, Puente Aranda, Los Mártires, Antonio Nariño, Santa Fe, Chapinero, Teusaquillo and Barrios Unidos; begin commercial operation in 2028.
