Line 2 of the Panama Metro reaches 70% progress

Line 2 of the Panama Metro reaches 70% progress with the challenge of advancing its partial opening 

Line 2 of the Panama Metro reports a 70% advance to the month of February 2018, between the civil works and the electromechanical part, informed the general director of the Panama Metro, Roberto Roy. 

According to the official, there is a great additional pressure because five months before the official delivery date of this line, four stations have to be put into operation because of the commitment made by Panama with the World Youth Day (WYD). and the arrival of Pope Franscisco in January 2019. 

This is the partial and temporary opening of four stations on Line 2, whose advance will cost an additional $ 9 million. 

Next week Roy will have to submit an addendum to the contract for approval before the Cabinet Council.

It was reported that the tests to put into operation four stations for WYD 2019 would begin in November, approximately.

On the other hand, from April of this year, the arrival of trains on Line 2 of the Panama Metro should begin.

This line will have 16 stations, which go from San Miguelito to Nuevo Tocumen, a journey that will be covered in 35 minutes.

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All the stations will be elevated, in an extension of 21 kilometers.

The cost of this project without new addenda amounts to $ 2,062,753,874.

Additional challenges

Another pending project that has to do with Line 2 of the Panama Metro is the extension to the Tocumen International Airport.

Currently, the Metro team is finishing drafting the bidding documents for the tender, which is expected to take place during 2018.

Meanwhile, the statement of charges for the extension of Metro Line 1 to Villa Zaíta, must be ready in 30 days to be delivered to potential interested parties in the project.

According to Roy, this project is more complicated because it has additional components such as: parking building, underground cables and others.

The tender for Line 3 of the Panama Metro is also pending, the last two chapters of the statement of objections are being drafted.

According to Roy, these three projects must advance during this 2018.

The President of the Republic, Juan Carlos Varela, has estimated that between April and May of 2018 the technical and economic proposals will be received to build Line 3 of the Panama Metro to West Panama.

Line 3 of the Metro, which will be financed by Japan for more than $ 2,000 million, will have a length of 26 kilometers in its first phase and 14 stations.

Depart from Albrook Station and travel through Arraiján, Nuevo Chorrillo and you will reach Ciudad del Futuro.