Line 17 (São Paulo Metro)

São Paulo Metro Line 17 (Gold)
Overview
Type	Monorail
System	São Paulo Metro
Status	Under construction
Locale	São Paulo, Brazil
Termini	São Paulo-Morumbi São Judas and Jabaquara
Stations	14
Operation
Opened	Late 2015
Operator(s)	Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo
Technical
Track gauge	1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)

Line 17 (Gold) is an under construction monorail project for the São Paulo Metro.

This new line will have 14 stations, beginning at the São Paulo-Morumbi station and ending at the São Judas Station. In contrast to the other metro lines, Line 17 will be a monorail. The line is part of the project that the city had to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup.^[1]

It will have integration with Line 1 (Blue), Line 4 (Yellow), and Line 5 (Lilac) as well as CPTM Line 9 (Emerald).^[2]

Construction works of the monorail "Linha 17-Ouro" parallel to Jornalista Roberto Marinho Avenue as of February 2015

The layout is designed as 21.5 kilometres (13.4 mi) long and will be opened in three stages. The first one is 3.8 kilometres (2.4 mi) long and is planned for early 2011, linking Congonhas-São Paulo Airport to São Judas Station, with an initial demand 18,000 passengers per day. The second phase, expected to have a demand of 100,000 passengers per day, will begin operations in 2013. It will be 10.8 kilometres (6.7 mi) long and will connect the Morumbi CPTM station and the Jabaquara metro station. The two sections will connect at the future Brooklin Paulista station, forming a "Y".^[3]

On 2 June 2011, Metro São Paulo awarded the Monotrilho Integracao consortium of Malaysian rail company Scomi Rail, Brazil's second largest construction company Andrade Gutierrez, CR Almeida and Montagens e Projetos Especiais a R$1.4bn turnkey contract to build the Line 17 monorail. The route is expected to carry 252,000 passengers a day. The consortium will be responsible for design, supply, installation and commissioning of the Sutra straddle monorail, including 24 Scomi SUTRA three-car trains to be provided by Scomi. ^[4]

The line will be operated as CBTC using Thales SelTrac technology, and is planned to open in June–July 2014. ^[5]

On 9 June 2014, a concrete support beam collapsed during construction which killed one worker and injuring two others.^[6] Completion was scheduled for the start of the World Cup but construction was delayed as it did not receive environmental approvals and as a consequence, it has been delayed until the second half of 2015.^[7][8]

See also

• List of monorail systems

References

1. "100% Fifa", Paulo Favero, Jornal da Tarde, 1/10/2009, pg. 7C
2. Information about SP Metro expansion projects on the SP government website (Portuguese)
3. "Monotrilho ligará Congonhas ao metrô", Eduardo Reina, Jornal da Tarde, 3/10/2009, pg. 7A
4. "RailwayGazette". Retrieved 15 April 2015.
5. Thales wins São Paulo CBTC contract, International Railway Journal, 16 December 2011, retrieved 4 January 2012
6. "Fatal accident on flagship Sao Paulo monorail". BBC News. 9 June 2014. Archived from the original on 4 July 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
7. "Parte de estrutura do monotrilho cai e deixa um morto na Zona Sul de SP". O Globo (in Portuguese). 9 June 2014. Archived from the original on 11 June 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
8. Manfred, Tony (10 June 2014). "One Dead After Part Of Unfinished Monorail Being Built For World Cup Collapses In São Paulo". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 10 June 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2014.