After several hours of work, the Metro technicians fixed the damage to the catenary of line A. Users were upset. Foto: Screenshot
Medellín Metro technicians managed to restore service between the Prado and Niquía stations that had been affected by damage to a catenary, cables that are above the trains and which feed energy to the system.
This means that the system already operates normally between the Estrella and Niquía stations. The damage, which was overcome in record time, however, generated monumental chaos in several stations of the mass transportation system and although the company established a contingency plan, it was not enough for the number of people who needed to move at full time. beak.
Complete chaos, this is what some of the Medellín Metro stations look like after damage to one of the system’s overhead lines. The contingency plan cannot cope with the number of people who were moving late into the night. pic.twitter.com/jqOzCM03yQ
— Teleantioquia (@Teleantioquia) October 22, 2024
“Once the intervention on the catenary is completed, line A of the metro reestablishes its commercial service between Niquía and La Estrella,” the company reported through its X account.
We restored the commercial operation of line A. We operate between Niquía and La Estrella until 11:00 pm pic.twitter.com/1pbdLBADWX
— Medellín Metro 💚 #SeguimosViajandoJuntos (@metrodemedellin) October 22, 2024
The damage was not in an operating route
Diego Giraldo, Manager of Operations and Maintenance of the Medellín Metro, clarified that the damage occurred in a catenary of the link road that connects line A with line B, which is not a commercial operation road, however, it is It affected a large part of the system.
That, added to the rains on Monday, October 21, plunged Medellín into great vehicular chaos and many frequent travelers who had to wait in long lines to board the trains that were not enough for the number of people waiting to travel.
What a bad day to take the Medellín metro pic.twitter.com/IJghyjW8S6
— Franklin (@alejobrit000_) October 21, 2024
In turn, the heavy rains and electric shocks that occurred on Monday afternoon caused the preventive closure of the Metrocable lines H (Oriente – Villa Sierra) and M (Miraflores – November 13).
Despite the speed with which they resolved the problem on Line A, many users wonder what is happening with the Metro, since in so many years of service it is the first time that so many events have occurred that put the mobility of the metro in check. city, among these the failure occurred in the Santo Domingo metrocable (Line K) on October 2 and June 26 on the same line.
2024-10-22 02:02:00
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