Medellin urban cable transportation

Technical assistance to Project Manager and follow-up of works for the realization of three new lines of the urban transport network of Medellin, the second biggest agglomeration of Colombia.

The task entrusted to Ingérop includes:

• AMO (technical assistance to project management);
• Monitoring works: the Colombian equivalent of the DET (Direction for the Execution of Works), the VISA and the OPC (Site Scheduling and Control).

The operation concerns three lines:

• A 4,2 km long tire line with 9 stations. This east-west line connects San Antonio (connection with metro lines A and B) and the Alejandro Echavarria district;
• Two overhead cable lines serving high-altitude neighborhoods. The first, between Miraflores (correspondence with the tramway) and Trece de Noviembre, crosses 1,1 km of 275 meters of difference in height and has an intermediate station.
• The second connects Alejandro Echavarria, terminus of the tramline, to La Sierra. It crosses 1,4 km of 200 meters difference in height, and also has an intermediate station. n">200 meters difference in height, and also has an intermediate station.