Valparaíso Metro
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Headway | 6–12 minutes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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System length | 43 km (27 mi)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Track gauge | 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Electrification | 3 kV DC from overhead catenary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Valparaíso Metro (
It is administered by Metro Regional de Valparaíso S.A., a subsidiary of the Chilean state-owned train company Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado. The Valparaíso Metro began with the conversion of an interurban service on the Santiago–Valparaíso railway line into more rapid transit-like service in 2005[3] – the renovated line was inaugurated on November 23, 2005 and began service the following day. The Valparaíso Metro carried 20.17 million passengers in 2019.[2]
Together with the much larger
Studies are being done to assess the feasibility of extending the line farther inland along the Valparaíso-Santiago Railway to serve the towns of
History
On May 29, 2019, basic engineering studies were awarded to the CDI and Consultrans consortia, with a deadline of 3 years for execution to extend the Valparaiso Metro towards La Calera.[9] In parallel, the project is already being submitted for environmental impact studies, aiming to start construction in 2023 and ultimately begin operations in 2027. Its future stations will be San Pedro, Quillota Sur, Quillota Centro, La Cruz, Guerra, and La Calera. However, new reports indicate that construction would begin in 2025 and be completed in 2028.[10]
Architecture
Between Puerto and Recreo the line runs at street level, bordering the coast, parallel to Errázuriz and España Avenues. It descends into the tunnel below Viana and Álvarez Avenues, with four underground stations. The line leaves the tunnel at the industrial area of El Salto and continues along a winding path to the inner metropolitan area.
Stations
Trazado | Station | Inauguration Date | Location | Comuna (Borough) |
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Tramo 1 Valparaíso |
Puerto | November 23, 2005 | Errázuriz Avenue and Sotomayor Square | Valparaíso |
Bellavista | Errázuriz Avenue and Pudeto | Valparaíso | ||
Francia | Errázuriz Avenue and Francia | Valparaíso | ||
Barón | Errázuriz Avenue and Argentina | Valparaíso | ||
Portales | Av. España and Pellé | Valparaíso | ||
Tramo 2 Viña del Mar |
Recreo | Av. España and Covadonga | Viña del Mar | |
Miramar | Álvarez and Von Schroeders | Viña del Mar | ||
Viña del Mar | Álvarez and Eduardo Grove Square | Viña del Mar | ||
Hospital | Álvarez and Simón Bolívar | Viña del Mar | ||
Chorrillos | Álvarez and Lusitania | Viña del Mar | ||
El Salto | 3250 Limache Avenue | Viña del Mar | ||
Tramo 3 Quilpué |
Valencia | c. 2024 | Condell Sur Avenue and Pasaje Once | Quilpué |
Quilpué | November 23, 2005 | Condell Sur Avenue and Vicuña Mackenna | Quilpué | |
El Sol | Baquedano Avenue and Aviador Acevedo | Quilpué | ||
El Belloto | Aviador Acevedo and Gómez Carreño | Quilpué | ||
Tramo 4 Villa Alemana |
Las Américas | Berlín/Ibáñez and Las Américas | Villa Alemana | |
La Concepción | Berlín/Ibáñez and Pudeto | Villa Alemana | ||
Villa Alemana | Berlín and Armando La Torre | Villa Alemana | ||
Sargento Aldea | Domingo Composto and Togo | Villa Alemana | ||
Peñablanca | Sargento Aldea and Presidente Montt | Villa Alemana | ||
Tramo 5 Limache |
Limache | Arturo Prat and José Tomás Urmeneta | Limache | |
Tramo 6 Future extension |
San Pedro | c. 2027 | TBC | Quillota |
Quillota Sur | Quillota | |||
Quillota Centro | Quillota | |||
La Cruz | La Cruz | |||
Guerra | La Calera
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La Calera | La Calera
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Fleet and operations
Valparaiso Metro has a fleet of 35 trains; 27 single-deck multiple-car X'Trapolis 100 train sets manufactured by Alstom, France operate the service, in a blue and white livery and 8 single-deck multiple-car X'Trapolis Modular train sets manufactured by Alstom, in Barcelona.
Services operate 06:30-22:30 on weekdays; 07:30-22.30 on Saturday, and 08:00-22:15 on Sunday and public holidays. Services between Puerto and Sargento Aldea are most frequent, at 6-minute frequencies, with 12-minute frequencies elsewhere, 12 minutes on weekends and public holidays.[11]
Ticketing and fares
To access the services of Metro Valparaiso the only means of payment is the Metroval card, a smart contactless card, costing CLP$1,350 (US$2.05) in May 2016 and sold at all stations. The card can be loaded in all ticket offices with cash or Redcompra; the minimum charge for general users is $300 and $1,000 to use Redcompra, all loads must be multiples of $100. It is scanned both entering and leaving stations since fares depend on the length of the journey and the time of day. There are five Zones and three time-of-day fares. Tickets cost from CLP$410 (US$0.62) in low-usage hours within Zone 1 (T1) to CLP$864 (US$1.31) in rush-hour travelling through five zones, for example from Valparaíso to Limache. The service "Bus + Metro" in the Limache Station to the cities of Limache Viejo, Olmué, Quillota and La Calera cost between CLP$787(US$1.19) and CLP$1460 (US$2.22).
There are concession cards for students, senior citizens,
Customer services and information offices are in 3 stations; Viña del Mar, Puerto and Limache.
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X'Trapolis 100 train at Puerto
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Outbound unit at Caleta Portales
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Viña del Mar station
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An X'Trapolis Modular unit
See also
- List of Valparaíso Metro stations
- Santiago–Valparaíso railway line
- Funicular railways of Valparaíso
- Trolleybuses in Valparaíso
- Transantiago
References
- ^ a b c d e "XIX Memoria Anual 2013" [2013 Annual Report] (PDF) (in Spanish). Metro Valparaíso S.A. p. 16. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
- ^ a b Memoria Anual Metro Valparaiso S.A. 2020 (PDF) (Report) (in Spanish). 2021-04-15. p. 42 – via EFE Trenes de Chile – Menor tiempo de viaje con más y mejor calidad de vida.
- ^ "Conócenos - Historia - El Servicio Ferroviario del siglo XXI" [About Us - History - The Railway Service of the 21st century] (in Spanish). Metro Valparaíso. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
- ^ Schwandl, Robert. "Valparaíso". UrbanRail.net. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
- ^ LOGIN Noticias. "LOGIN Noticias - Proyecto de extensión de Metro Valparaíso a Quillota-La Calera es rentable socialmente". www.login.cl (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 2018-01-28. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
- ^ "Studies underway to extend Valparaíso rail system - BNamericas". BNamericas. 2015-11-02. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
- ISSN 0718-6037– via Consejo de Políticas de Infraestructura (CPI).
- ^ "Chile's Santiago-Valparaíso high-speed rail viable - study".
- ^ "Extensión Tren Limache – Puerto a Quillota y La Calera – EFE Trenes de Chile". www.efe.cl. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
- ^ Valencia, Jean (2023-04-18). "Proyecto ferroviario de Limache a La Calera: sondeos arqueológicos podrían retrasar obras hasta 2 años". BioBio Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-10-12.
- ^ "Viaje en Metro - Frecuencia" [Metro Travel - Frequency] (in Spanish). Metro Valparaíso. Retrieved 2016-07-03.
External links
- Valparaíso Metro Official site (in Spanish)