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6 years ago

Subway or Metro to and from Tocumen

6 years ago

I got a notice that Metro de Panamá S.A. submitted an Environmental Impact Study (EIA) in August to the Ministry of the Environment.

According to the EIA, the project which will be developed between the towns of Tocumen and Las Mañanitas, in the district and province of Panama, will involve building a 2-kilometer elevated line that starts on the side of the Line 2 station under construction in front of the UTP and will go along the south side of Avenida Domingo Díaz, passing over the cloverleaf interchange located at the exit of the South Corridor at Tocumen, until reaching a first station to be built between the INADEH facilities and the future Higher Technical Institute in Tocumen (ITSE). From there the journey continues to its second station, at the new south terminal of the airport. It will be interesting how that will affect Taxis at Tocumen. Also the subways do not normally allow large suitcases on board. Those backpack and small suitcase or briefcase travelers will have an advantage.

The type of trains that will be used will be similar to those used on Line 1. They are conventional trains with steel wheels, composed of a maximum of five cars of an approximate length of 86 meters. With the expansion, Line 2 will have initial passenger transport capacity for 4,000 passengers / hour / direction (AW2 cargo) and 6000 passengers / hour / direction (AW3 cargo), considering a target frequency of 10 minutes.

According a document I received issued by the Panama Metro, it is estimated that the investment will be around $125 million.

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