The Medellín Metro and the French multinational Transdev signed this Tuesday the contract for operate the Quito metrothe first of its kind in the capital of Ecuador and which awaits mobilize more than 377,000 users every day.
Although this Colombian-French consortium was already known since last September He had been the anointed to release this system of transport, the words became facts, after both managed to comply with all the technical and administrative requirements.
As the Metro specified in a statement, the milestone also becomes a beacon of hope for the entity, which since the beginning of the pandemic he has not been able to recover from the reduction in income caused by the drop in the number of trips.
“Its operation also becomes for the Medellín Metro the possibility of obtaining additional non-tariff economic resources to continue strengthening the Company financially and it is also an opportunity to extend the Metro Culture to another country,” said the Metro, detailing that The signed contract will have an initial term of 6 years.
In total, added the company, the Metro-Transdev alliance will assume the operation of 18 trains that will move through the 15 stations of that system located in a path of 22 kilometers.