Prototype Metro car in the coming months to Bogotá

Over the past few days, the mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, together with the general manager of the Metro Company, Leonidas Narváez, took a tour of the streets of the capital, observing the progress in the works of the most important project being built in the city. Starting from the workshop yard of the route of the first line of the metro to its end point on Calle 72 with Caracas Avenue.

Lopez thanked Metro Company, the Chinese consortium Apca Transmetro, made up of China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd. (Chec) and Xi'an Metro Company Lt and the Colombian industry for the progress made by the work, especially with regard to the workshop yard, where the 30 trains on the first line of the Bogotá Metro will be parked and the depressed one on 72nd street, which is higher than expected.

The Mayor also confirmed that for the second half of 2022, a prototype wagon will arrive in Bogotá and at the scale of what will be the machine on which citizens will be able to mobilize when the work is finished. This model is intended to be placed around Simón Bolívar Park, as a monument — classroom of metro culture, for both nationals and tourists to visit.

In this sense, and “like a stern wind”, Claudia López emphasizes the importance of the most important work expected by citizens, especially by the people of Bogota after 60 years of waiting.

He also confirmed that the new mobile concrete plant in the Primera Línea workshop yard, built on an area of seven thousand square meters, is undergoing final technical tests in order to enter into operation in the next few days, and which will allow the construction work being built in the El Corzo sector, in the town of Bosa, to be supplied with this material.

With the work carried out and the generation of more than 17,118 direct and indirect jobs, covering the previous year and this year, work is expected to begin by 2023 on the 23.8 kilometres of viaduct and 28 access buildings.

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