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05.07.08
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BNDES signs R$34m loan for Rio’s subway upgrade
BNDES entered on Wednesday, 7, a R$34.3m financing contract with Metrô Rio, Rio de Janeiro’s subway concessionaire, for the company’s operational structure upgrading project, which will adopt new traffic and ticketing technologies. Railcar, IT, traffic management and maintenance redesign are also included in the project. The project’s overall amount is R$55.5 million.
The project will allow the implementation of a single ticketing system and the replacement of traffic control systems currently used in lines 1 and 2.
The existing fleet of 182 railcars will be redesigned, increasing passenger transport capacity by 2.84% in the entire system (lines 1 and 2). For line 1, separately, seats will have a 3.57% increase. In line 2, seats will have a 2.15% increase. The subway operational fleet makes up 33 railcars.
The project, to be performed in around 12 months, will also provide network adjustment investments (including railways, stations and rolling stock) to the new systems to be implemented.
Incorporated in January 1998, the concessionaire Metrô Rio started offering underground railway transport in April of the same year through the concession of services for 20 years, which can extended to 40 years.
The concession currently includes line 1, between Saens Peña and Cantagalo stations, and line 2, between Estácio and Pavuna stations. Additionally, the stretch between Estácio and Carioca stations (2.97 km) and the extension of line 1, between Cantagalo and General Osório (0.81 km), are also concession object.
Lines 1 and 2 together are 36.8 kilometer long, include 33 stations and offer 29 railcars at rush hours, with average interval between railcars of around 4 minutes.
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