The mayor of Bogotá, Carlos Fernando Galán, announced significant details of the advance of the Bogotá Metro. He did it within the framework of the interview he granted to El Debate, from the week.
“The subway is going well. I will have the next week the project progress.
“We are going to look for that progress process to be further expedited. The project has open and advanced fronts, not only in the workshop courtyard, in the corridor to station 1, but also on Villavicencio Avenue, in May 1, in the eighth south, in Caracas. There is already viaduct in Caracas, we already have what are called three openings, what is a vain? The other, “added the mayor of Bogotá.
“There are already three connections and that will continue to advance rapidly because the throwing beam that is operating, that is like the crane that is putting together the viaduct, it is already in the Caracas installed operating to connect the 32 with the 26 initially and then start north to the North to the Marly station,” added Mayor Galán.
Regarding the trains of Bogotá, which Galán has shown on some occasions, he said that there is already a date to reach Colombia and, once in national territory, be transferred to the capital. “We also have news of the trains. Already the first advanced train in tests in China, significantly, must start in more or less a month and a half, two months, on the way to Bogotá. It must arrive by boat to Cartagena and will arrive in Bogotá in September and will take evidence and from there they must arrive trains every month. This year they must arrive between three and four trains to Bogotá. ”
“That is not cardboard, that is really. It is not a render, it is a real train that, in addition, people will see before the first semester of 2026 ends, people will see it in tests in 6 kilometers of viaduct giving tours of Bogotá. That is, of the workshop court You will see those trains rolling, at the end of that the first half of the next year, that is, in a year or so people will see those trains rolling through an area of Bogotá in tests, ”he added.
Regarding the media attacks he has received for the design of the elevated subway or others from political sectors, Galán said: “The project is going well, we will defend it and I also take advantage of its space to tell the citizenship, we all have to defend that project. Bogotá, which I believe that in its vast major Defend it on all distances.
“We are going to have the first line in operation in the first half of the year 2028. I will not describe, say, those inconsistencies (of their critics), but I do believe that Bogotá is finally overcoming those historical debts, it will have a subway, we are going to award the second subway line also to start the construction of the next year,” added Carlos Fernando Galán, mayor of Bogotá.
“We are advancing much more, here in this government we are not dedicated to speech, to hinder projects, but to specify things, to things happen, to resolve for people and people finally see solutions to the big problems. And that has led us to important social results,” he added. “People ask for results, no speech, do not labia,” he said about the matter.
