[sustran] the $1.45bn Metro Line 1 project in Panama city

eric britton eric.britton at ecoplan.org
Fri Feb 25 01:35:22 JST 2011


That works out to something rather more than a thousand dollars a
centimeter.  You could do some interesting things to transport 15,000, even
40,000 people to where they really want to go (as opposed ot where the metro
wants to take them) with that kind of money.

It always gets back to Henry Ford's comment, that thinking is the hardest
kind of work he knew, and that he figured was why people did so little of
it.

Eric Britton 



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Construction Commences on Panama Metro
http://www.railway-technology.com/news/news111228.html?WT.mc_id=DN_News

A consortium led by FCC has commenced construction work on the $1.45bn Metro
Line 1 project in Panama city in the Republic of Panama.

The metro will eventually cover 14km with 11 stations, some of which will be
above ground.

Aside from FCC, the consortium includes the Brazilian firm Norberto
Odebrecht and Alstom Group.

Line 1 of the metro will run from the national bus terminal at Albrook to
Los Andes in the north of the city, and will stretch north to south, linking
the city centre with the suburbs in the east.

The new mass transit system, considered to be the first in Central America,
will have capacity for 15,000 passengers per hour each way in its initial
phase, and is estimated to increase to 40,000 each way by 2035.

The line will be automated, driverless, with detection and tracking systems
for trains at intervals of 90 seconds and 75 seconds.

The stations on Panama Metro Line 1 will be two termini (one definitive, the
other provisional), three will offer transfers to other modes of transport
and future Metro lines, while six intermediate stations will have platforms
of up to 93m in length.



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