CHILE: SICE and software partner GMV are supplying a total of 80 standard and 150 compact customised ticket vending machines for Santiago metro Line 6 which opened last November and the future Line 3 which is scheduled to open at the end of this year.
The TVMs are being used to sell and recharge bip! smart cards, instead of staffed ticket offices.
CHILE: President Michelle Bachelet opened the first driverless metro line in Santiago on November 2. Line 6 links Cerrillos to Los Leones on a 15·3 km underground alignment, serving 10 stations. Interchanges are provided with metro lines 1, 2 and 5, as well as the future Line 3 and ...
SOUTH AMERICA: CAF announced on December 21 that it had won follow-on orders to supply additional metro cars to existing customers in Chile and Colombia. Metro de Santiago has approved a contract for four additional driverless trainsets. This is an add-on to a €160m order signed in late 2013 which ...
CHILE: Metro de Santiago has awarded a joint venture of Strukton International and Arrigoni Engineering & Construction a contract to build five underground stations on Line 3. Announcing its first Latin American project on November 23, Strukton said that the €46m contract covers civil, structural, architectural, and mechanical, electrical ...
