The Quito City Council and Quito Metro announced on October 27 that Acciona (Spain) – Odebrecht (Brazil) consortium is the preferred bidder for the Phase 2 of the first metro line in Ecuador’s capital. The consortium formed in equal parts by the two companies.
Under the USD 1.5 billion contract, the consortium will have to build 22 km of tunnel and 13 metro stations, carriage sheds and workshops, and the railway facilities required for commissionin.
The line already has 2 metro stations build by Acciona. The line will link the city on a North-South axis and will carry 400 million passenger per day.
“Today is a great day for the people of Quito as we awarded the final step of Quito Metro. This is the largest infrastructure project in the history of the Metropolitan District of Quito,” Mayor Mauricio Rodas said.
The total cost of Metro de Quito is estimated at USD 2 billion and includes the Phase 1 of the project (El Labrador – La Magdalena line), the Phase 2 (for tunnel works, and construction of 13 stations) and the acquisition of the rolling stock.
The Municipality will finance 63% of the total cost and the 37% is covered by the Ecuadorian Government financing from Latin America Development Bank (CAF), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), European Investment Bank (EIB) and World Bank (WB).
The new metro line comprises the first component of a new public transport system for Quito. ACCIONA has already completed the civil works for the stations of La Magdalena and El Labrador, which were built in phase one of the project, in a contract awarded to ACCIONA Infrastructure.
Quito’s first metro line will run from the Quitumbe bus terminal in the south of the city to El Labrador station in the north, on the site of an old airport. Construction is expected to take 36 months, with a further six months for systems integration and commissioning. The stations along the line are Quitumbe, Morán Valverde, Solanda, El Calzado, El Recreo, La Magdalena, San Francisco, La Alameda, El Ejido, Universidad Central, La Pradera, La Carolina, Iñaquito, Jipijapa and El Labrador.
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