Government of SP wants to outsource ABC’s monorail

The state government opened yesterday the process to outsource the development of Track 18-Bronze, the metro monorail that the will connect the capital to the ABC. The private sector has ten days to respond to the ‘open call’ and six months to submit its proposals. It is expected that the first step of the new track will be in operation by 2015.

This branch has credit lines approved by the federal government, through Caixa Econômica Federal. In 2015, the new modal should meet an average of 295,500 passengers per day. But it is expected that in 15 years this number will rise to 472,000 daily users. The estimated budget for this track is US$ 2.37 billion. This is the first metro track to leave the city of São Paulo.

The proposal is that the work is divided into two phases. In the first stage, the trains will leave the Tamanduateí station – interconnection point between Metro Track 2-Green with the São Paulo Metropolitan Train Company Track 10-Turquoise – and follow to São Caetano do Sul, through Avenida Guido Aliberti, before circulating on the border between Santo André and São Bernardo do Campo, at Avenida Lauro Gomes. From there, the monorail will continue until the Town Palace of São Bernardo do Campo, through Avenida Pereira Barreto.

This first stage is 14 km long, with 12 stops that will be served by 20 trains. The projection is that the headway will be less than three minutes (168 seconds). In 2016, when the second stage is completed (to the Alvarenga district), the headway should drop to 113 seconds, and the fleet should be increased to 40 trains.Buses. For the text, published in Official Gazette of the State, the project must also contain a plan for reorganization of the ABC’s mass transit. The area is the only metropolitan region without a concession contract for intercity bus companies – there are only companies that operate under a ‘precarious permission’. The monorail project may unite the operation of the new train and the intercity buses in a single concession scheme. The ABC region is the only area of the Greater São Paulo that most people use the car instead of public transport in daily trips to work and study.