Misplaced Pages

Guarenas / Guatire Metro

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Guarenas / Guatire Metro" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (January 2022)
(Learn how and when to remove this message)

Guarenas / Guatire Metro is a combined metro/light rail project of the Caracas Metro to connect the twin cities of the Guarenas-Guatire conurbation and intermediate communities to Caracas, Venezuela.

Overview

The 2 billion dollar project aimed to accommodate 125,000 daily users consists of 2 distinct parts the urban metro line and suburban light rail line. Construction started on March 18, 2007 with a planned completion projected for late July 2012. The opening date was later changed to 2015 and then to 2016. As of November 2022, there is no official opening date.

Lines

The metro portion of the project will have the following four stations (part of Line 5):

  • Miranda/Hugo Chávez (existing station on Line 1; formerly: Parque del Este II)
  • Montecristo
  • Boleíta
  • El Marqués
  • Warairarepano (transfer station for the light rail portion; formerly: Guaraira Repano)

The light rail portion will have the following stations:

  • Warairarepano (transfer station for the metro portion; formerly: Guaraira Repano)
  • Caucaugüita
  • Belén
  • Guarenas I
  • Guarenas II
  • Guatire I
  • Guatire II

See also

  • IAFE – Venezuelan National Railway

References

  1. Cardona, Lisette (16 October 2012). "Metro de Guarenas ha tenido 4 fechas de inauguración". Gran Caracas (in Spanish). El Nacional. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
  2. "Metro Caracas-Guarenas-Guatire: elevaron su costo en 600% y sirvió para pagar sobornos en otros países". El Pitazo (in Spanish). 2022-11-02. Retrieved 2023-01-11.

External links

Urban rail systems in Venezuela

Categories: