Avenida 80 Light Rail (Medellín)

Description: This is a medium-capacity passenger transportation project to be implemented in the short term. The corridor comprises a route from the Caribe station of the Metro, passing through transversal 73, then along calle 65 to the Facultad de Minas sector where it takes avenue 80-81, closing the circuit at the Aguacatala station in the south of the city of Medellín. The corridor is conceived as a concentrating strip of services that in addition to being a connector (given that it is a mass public transport axis) is associated with the complete system of centralities, so that mixed land uses are favored in them, offering services of equal or higher level with easy access for all. The 80th Street subway will be integrated to the A subway line at Aguacatala and Caribe, thus being the third line of the system. The route of the line includes a semi-underground area at Robledo station, as well as elevated areas by means of two viaducts, one in Caribe and the other in Aguacatala, in order to cross over a difference in level of roads with high vehicular traffic demand. Other important crossings, will have interchanges that will allow trains to travel freely at these crossings. The light rail will run at a maximum speed of 60 km/h, will have the capacity to carry 14,000 passengers in each direction in one hour and the trains will be able to accommodate 300 to 600 passengers. The travel time will be 32 minutes.