📋 Tender Overview
The Minister of Transport and Communications Carlos Estremadoyro this morning inspected the segment manufacturing plant in order to verify that the concrete structures that will form the rings that will cover the tunnel of the future Line 2 and branch 4 of the Metro de Lima are produced in full operation.The plant has been operating at 100 since the end of last year and so far more than 7300 segments have been ready forming 1050 rings of the 13000 that are needed in total. There is good production and it could be doubled if necessary. This will allow the tunnel boring machines to start working at the end of the year to multiply the speed of the excavations that are being carried out informed the head of the MTC.Regarding the progress of Line 2 the Minister Estremadoyro explained that for the first quarter of 2021 the tests of the first 5 kilometers of the train route will begin to later put it at the service of the public. The complete work which runs from Callao to Ate is expected to be operational in the first half of 2025 according to the established schedule.This first section is expected to be ready in May or June of the following year. Our goal is for it to start operating on the Bicentennial of the Independence of the Republic. On the other hand with the two tunnel boring machines which will allow us a faster excavation we will be able to overcome the delays that have been had these months due to Covid-19 and finish the rest of line 2 and the branch of line 4 within the deadlines global established. emphasized.Coordinated workEstremadoyro stressed that they have been working in a coordinated way with the concessionaire and the municipal authorities involved so that the work is not going to be paralyzed due to some legal or administrative problem. He also highlighted that this Government has modified some rules to facilitate the expropriations of land and releases of interference that were not taken into account when the project was designed and the contract was signed in 2014.We have had to modify a series of norms for example on the subject of releases and expropriations. Norms have been incorporated that allow agile hiring of other State companies and thus free up areas and seek the solution to the problems that had been presented in protocols for administrative procedures explained the head of the MTC.Line 2 of the Lima Metro and the Av. Faucett - Av. Gambetta branch of the Basic Network of the Lima and Callao Metro seek to offer the population clean safe modern and efficient land transport infrastructure that will interconnect 13 districts of Lima and the constitutional province of Callao. It is expected to carry more than a million passengers a day when the work is completed.
