First Metro Line Connection Works: Impact on Transmilenio Stations in Bogotá

2024-03-13 03:55:00

Transmilenio anti-college doors located at the Avenida 39 station of the Caracas trunk of the system

Photo: El Espectador – José Vargas

From the Patio Taller in Bosa, Mayor Carlos Fernando Galán reported that, in the coming months, four Transmilenio stations on Caracas Avenue will be closed for connection works with the First Metro Line. “This same year we are going to start the intervention in some stations such as Marly, Calle 26, Calle 63 and Calle 72.”

The president of Bogotá warned that this intervention will have impacts on traffic, so, together with the Ministry of Mobility, “we are going to make a plan that we have to convey very well to the citizens of the impact that this work is going to have. “We are working throughout the District with the consortium to guarantee that the necessary plans are made and Transmilenio can continue operating with some adjustments.”

Regarding the closing times of these points, the manager of the Metro Company, Leónidas Narváez, indicated that Marly and Calle 26 will be the first to stop operating in the month of May; while Calle 63 and Calle 72 will have closures starting in July and mid-August, respectively.

From Transmilenio, they indicated that they are adjusting the route schedule and schedules, in order to guarantee service to millions of users.

The District’s commitment to advance this 2024 on the First Metro Line

During the inspection and balance report of the First Line of the Bogotá Metro, its manager, Leónidas Narváez, delivered the list of projections to be carried out during 2024. “We have a detailed programming thanks to a software called Primavera P5, which “It allows us to load all the information on the execution of the work fronts and determines the progress.”

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Based on this tool, he said, they are scheduled to end the year with a 43% progress in the works, which is currently at 30.86%, taking into account three components: the early transfer of networks, by the District, which is 100% complete; property management, also in charge of the District, which contemplates the acquisition of 1,429 properties and is 98.88% complete, and the concession contract which is 21.51% complete.

In terms of physical execution, Narváez indicated that they must have started station one of the viaduct, station two; “having almost finished the metal bridge leading out of the workshop patio. In September or October, finish the foundation networks on Villavicencio Avenue to Portal Américas. And finish the 72nd Street interchange in the month of October, which is 56% complete.”

The president of Bogotá said that precisely that last depressed person, “is part of the delay we have. That is why the effort is being made to allow us to catch up with the works of the PLMB.

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