{"id":3989,"date":"2020-04-09T13:35:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T11:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2020-04-13T19:39:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T17:39:46","slug":"trains-to-make-better-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/trains-to-make-better-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Trains to make better citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"
For Dr. Jorge Yunda, Mayor of Quito, the city\u2019s first metro line is more than just emblematic infrastructure; it\u2019s \u201can excellent opportunity for people to change the way they relate to each other\u201d. The city\u2019s authorities hope the new mass transport system will consolidate \u2018Metro culture\u2019. They also believe it will improve quality of life by saving time for residents, enabling them to be more supportive of one another, and allowing them to breathe cleaner air by reducing the thousands of tons of CO2<\/sub> they currently release into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n More than 400,000 people\u00a0will benefit from the new sustainable transport\u00a0system every day<\/p><\/blockquote>\n With just a few months to go until its opening, Line 1 of Quito\u2019s publicly-owned Empresa Metropolitana de Metro de Quito will be completely underground, have 22 kilometres of track built with cutting-edge technology and will be equipped with modern trains manufactured by the Spanish company CAF in the north of Spain. The line will have 15 stations stretching from the El Labrador station at the south terminal station of the old airport to the Quitumbe station south of the city, and a total travel time of 34 minutes. Four hundred thousand people are expected to use the new infrastructure every day.<\/p>\n The success of the Medell\u00edn Metro prompted representatives of Metro de Quito to sign a rail transport cooperation agreement with the Empresa de Transporte Masivo del Valle de Aburr\u00e1 Limitada-Metro de Medell\u00edn (the Valle de Aburr\u00e1 Limited-Medell\u00edn Metro Mass Transit Company). The agreement provides a framework for joint contribution, knowledge transfer and work in different areas related to the metro\u2019s operation. Similarly, in August 2019, a cooperation agreement was also signed between the Central University of Ecuador and Metro de Quito. The ambitious construction project is supported by the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the CAF-Development Bank of Latin America and the European Investment Bank.<\/p>\n