These first six wagons will be guarded by a safety caravan, headed by the public force.
Bogotá Metro cars in Puerto de Cartagena.
Courtesy Mayor’s Office of Bogotá.
The Six Bogotá Metro cars They will leave this Friday from Cartagena, in a caravan escorted by the Military Forces and the National Police.
The tour of the capital of the country will be slow and careful, because Special transport vehicles (low bed) cannot exceed 30 kilometers per hour. Therefore, the arrival is scheduled for Wednesday, September 10.
The Route drawn will wear the wagons by the Vía al Mara to Santa Martathen by the Route del Sol going through Bosconia, San Alberto, Puerto Boyacá, Guaduas and Villeta, until I enter Bogotá along 13th Street.
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These cars were downloaded in the port of Cartagena In a high complexity port operation, which lasted 17 hours, with the participation of 41 people directly in the subway maneuver and 125 in the total ship operation.
The port, considered the most efficient third in the world by the World Bank and Standard & Poor’sguaranteed a safe, precise and efficient process, from the destroying to the lifting and positioning on specialized modular.
He First train of line 1 of the Bogotá Metro was manufactured in the Changchun City (China)headquarters of one of the world’s largest railway plants, operated by CRRC Corporation Limited. Its aesthetic design is inspired by the black eagle rampant of the shield of Bogotá, symbol of strength and historical legacy.
The construction of this first train took ten months, from the assembly to the equipment assembly. Each train is composed of Six wagons with total capacity for 1,800 passengers (300 per car), reaching a commercial speed of 43 km/Hy with 140 -second operation intervals.
The trains They are 100 % electric, sustainable and automated, with a CBTC signaling and control system that will allow a safer and more efficient operation.
The wagons They arrive decoupled on ships from the port of Qingdao (China) And, once in Bogotá, they will be assembled in the BOSA WORKSHOP PATIOwhere they will be stored.
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The delivery plan will be progressive: this year Two or three trains will dispatch from the same factory, and by December 2026 the full fleet of 30 trains will be ready in the capital to start evidence.
With the arrival of the first wagons, The country begins to see the mass transport project materialized more important in its recent history, which is the Bogotá Metro.
Five other trains are expected to arrive before 2025 are finished and they will all do it to Port of Cartagena.
Source: Integrated information system
