Valencia Metro (Venezuela)

Valencia Metro
Coupled Siemens vehicles
Overview
Locale	Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela
Transit type	Rapid transit/light metro[1]
Number of lines	1 (with more planned)[2]
Number of stations	7[2]
Daily ridership	62,000 (2011)[3]
Website	Metro Valencia C.A.
Operation
Began operation	18 November 2007
Number of vehicles	12 Siemens SD-460 2-car trainsets
Technical
System length	7.7 km (4.8 mi)^[citation needed]

A vehicle at the maintenance facility

The Valencia Metro (Spanish: Metro Valencia or Metro de Valencia) is the public mass transit system of Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela and its suburbs Naguanagua Municipality and San Diego Municipality.

Operations

The metro system was officially opened to the public on 18 November 2006 with just 3 of 7 stations along the original 4.7-kilometer (2.9 mi) Line 1 route^[2] open for service, and operating for limited hours while providing service free of charge.^[3] Normal revenue service with all 7 stations along Line 1^[2] began 18 November 2007.

Although the fleet comprises twelve Siemens SD-460 2-car light rail vehicle trainsets, the Valencia system is a light metro,^[4][1] running on a completely grade-separated route (other than within its own maintenance yard) that does not share space with any other traffic.

Valencia Metro operates Monday-Friday from 6am to 8:30pm; Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 6:00am to 7:30pm. An adult fare of 0.5 BsF (23 US cents) and a student fare of 0.15 BsF (7 US Cents) is charged to ride the metro. An average of 62,000 passenger are transported daily.

Lines

See also: List of Valencia, Venezuela metro stations

Currently^[when?] the Valencia Metro operates Line 1 for service.

Future

Extension of the existing north-south route - Lines 2 & 3

A further 4.3-kilometer (2.7 mi) section (Line 2)^[2] of the same north-south route as Line 1 is under construction,^[3] and a third 5.6-kilometer (3.5 mi) section (Line 3)^[2] in the engineering and environmental impact phases.^[3] Thus, of the full 14.6-kilometer (9.1 mi) north-south route, only 4.7 kilometers (2.9 mi) are currently^[when?] in service, with the remaining 9.9 kilometers (6.2 mi) still under construction or in development. Not every segment of construction on this route is an independent "line." When the system is fully completed, it will form a single continuous route, with no transfers necessary to complete a trip along the route.

Line 4

A separate 18.2 kilometers (11.3 mi)^{[citation needed]} east-west Line 4^[2] will connect mainly the Valencia Municipality with San Diego Municipality of the same city, and it is in the preliminary planning stage.

See also

• Caracas Metro
• Los Teques Metro
• Maracaibo Metro
• IAFE Venezuelan National Railway
• List of Latin American rail transit systems by ridership
• Medium-capacity rail transport system (light metro)
• List of tram and light rail transit systems
• List of metro systems

References

1. Tramways & Urban Transit, February 2008, p. 77. LRTA Publishing (UK). ISSN 1460-8324.
2. "Mapa de Linea 1" [Map of Line 1] (in Spanish). C.A. Metro de Valencia. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
3. "Historia de la C.A. Metro de Valencia" [History of the C.A. Metro Valencia] (in Spanish). C.A. Metro de Valencia. 15 August 2012. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
4. Webb, Mary (ed.) (2009). Jane's Urban Transport Systems 2009-2010, pp. "[19]" (in foreword) and 486. Coulsdon, Surrey (UK): Jane's Information Group. ISBN 978-0-7106-2903-6.

External links

Media related to Valencia (Venezuela) Metro at Wikimedia Commons

• Metro Valencia C.A. - official website (in Spanish)
• UrbanRail.net: Valencia