RegioTram

The Train for the Vicinities of the City of Bogotá (Spanish: Tren de cercanías de Bogotá), also known as RegioTram, is a transportation project for of a mass and rapid transport system to connect Bogotá with surrounding cities. This transportation project is to replace the, now defunct, Bogotá Savannah Railway.

RegioTram
Overview
Area servedBogotá savanna
LocaleBogotá, Colombia
Transit typeCommuter rail/tram train
Number of stations37
Operation
Operation will start2024[1]
Technical
System length110.3 km (68.5 mi)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge

History

In February 2019, a Spanish consortium of Ardanuy Ingeniería and FGC was awarded a contract to provide project consultancy and supervision services for the first 41km tram-train line, designed to connect Bogota with the municipalities of Mosquera, Madrid, Funza, Sector El Corzo and Facatativá in the department of Cundinamarca. The line is forecast to carry 211,000 daily passengers, with 17 stations and an end-to-end journey time of 48 minutes.[2] By August that same year, tendering for the line was launched by the Colombian government with a projected 2024 opening.[1]

In 2019, Chinese company CCECC won a contract to build the regional train line to connect Bogota to its neighbouring suburbs, known as RegioTram.[3]

Planned lines
 Name
Route
  Opening date  Length  Number of stations  Notes
Cercanías de Occidente
Estación de la Sabana - Aeropuerto El Dorado and Facatativá
  2024[1]  41 km  19  In tendering.[4]
Cercanías del Sur
Estación de la Sabana - Soacha
    18.1 km  18  In design.[5]
Cercanías del Norte
Estación de la Sabana - Zipaquirá
   2024[6]  39.5 km  9  In design[7]
Corredor Central - Av. 68
Estación El Pedregal - Venecia
    17.1 km  n/d  In design[8]
Corredor Oriental - AK 7
El codito - Portal 20 de julio
    28 km  n/d  Under study[8]

See also

References
  1. "Tendering begins for Bogota RegioTram West concession". International Railway Journal. 23 August 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  2. "Consultancy contract awarded for Bogota RegioTram project". International Railway Journal. 4 February 2019. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  3. https://www.eltiempo.com/bogota/regiotram-de-occidente-lo-adjudican-a-empresa-china-pese-a-polemica-446388
  4. "En febrero se abriría licitación de tren de cercanías Bogotá-Facatativá". 2016-01-30.
  5. "SITP, Sistema de Transporte Urbano de Bogotá".
  6. "Colombia signs Regiotram del Norte supervision contract". International Railway Journal. 5 May 2020. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2019-04-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. "En mes y medio se adjudicarán obras de primera línea del Metro de Bogotá".


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