Ayacucho tram
Ayacucho tram | |
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Loyola stop | |
Basic information | |
Country | Colombia |
city | Medellin |
opening | March 31, 2016 |
operator | Metro de Medellín Ltda |
Infrastructure | |
Route length | 4.3 km |
Stops | 9 |
business | |
Lines | 1 |
Line length | 4.3 km |
vehicles | 12 STE5 |
Top speed | 70 km / h |
statistics | |
Passengers | 90,000 a day |
Residents in the catchment area |
350 thousand |
The Ayacucho tram is a so-called " Tramway sur pneumatiques " ( French for "tram on rubber tires") in the Colombian city of Medellín . The radial line operated according to the French Translohr system connects the city center with the east of the city and was opened 64 years after the old tram system was abandoned.
In the second largest city in the country, the name “Tranvía de Ayacucho” has become established, derived from the Avenida Ayacucho arterial road running to the southeast , the course of which is largely followed by the tram. The system is run by the transport company Empresa de Transporte Masivo del Valle de Aburrá - Metro de Medellín Ltda , which also operates the local metro and in whose network the Ayacucho tram is integrated as line TA.
history
After a conventional tram network already existed in Medellín from 1921 to 1951 and a conventional trolleybus system from 1929 to 1951 , the city signed a contract on May 13, 2011 with the French company Lohr Industrie to set up a Translohr system. Construction work began in 2012 and the vehicles arrived in 2014. A first test drive took place on July 13, 2015, before preliminary operations began on October 15, 2015 and finally operations began on March 31, 2016. The Ayacucho Tram cost $ 300 million to build. It is the first and so far only such system in South America .
route
The route is 4.3 kilometers long, has two lanes throughout and is used by up to 90,000 passengers a day. The average gradient is five percent, the highest gradient twelve percent, the tightest curve radius 20 meters. In the immediate catchment area of the line are three barrios , in which together around 350,000 people live. In total, the TA line serves the following nine stops , including four transfer stations:
- San Antonio
- San Jose
- Pabellon del Agua EPM
- Bicentenario
- Buenos Aires
- Miraflores
- Loyola
- Alejandro Echavarría
- Oriente
vehicles
Twelve five-part, 2.22-meter-wide and 39-meter-long two-way vehicles of the type STE5 are used on the Ayacucho tram . This vehicle length can only be found in Medellín. They can each carry 311 people and together cost 42.3 million euros.
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Web links
- Website of the Metro de Medellín (Spanish)
- Website of the manufacturer about this project (en / fr / es)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Medellin relaunches tram line after 64 years of absence. colombiareports.com. From October 17, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Conozca la ruta del Tranvía de Ayacucho y sus dos cables. comuna6docedeoctubre.org. Accessed March 20, 2017 (Spanish)
- ^ Website of the Metro de Medellín. metrodemedellin.gov.co. Retrieved March 20, 2017 (Spanish)
- ↑ The Trams and Trolleybuses of Medellín on tramz.com
- ↑ Tranvía de Ayacucho inicia su operación comercial. otocias.caracol.tv. From March 31, 2016 (Spanish)
- ↑ Medellin starts commercial operations on Ayacucho tramway line. railway-technology.com. Accessed March 27, 2019
- ↑ Así construyeron un tranvía en dos años en Medellín. eltiempo.com. Accessed March 7, 2017 (Spanish)
- ↑ newtl.com
- ↑ railjournal.com