SÃO Paulo Metropolitan Trains Company (CPTM), which operates commuter services in the São Paulo Metropolitan Region, has published a tender for a 30-year concession to operate and maintain the 41.6km Line 8-Diamond and the 32.5km Line 9-Emerald.
The successful bidder can even oversee the continuing modernisation, extension and improve of the 2 lines, which will likely be funded by way of a Reais 3bn funding outlined within the contract.
A public session for the receipt of bids will happen on March 2 2021.
Line 8 consists of 22 stations, in addition to a maintenance and stabling depot. The successful bidder can even rebuild the presently defunct station in Ambuitá.
Line 9 serves 18 stations. A 4.5km southern extension from Grajaú is presently under building and can add a new station at Mendes-Vila Natal in 2021, and another in Varginha in 2022. A third station at João Dias Station, between Santo Amaro and Granja Julieta, is being constructed by the personal sector with an funding of Reais 60m ($US 11.7m). It’s scheduled for completion within the second half of 2021.
Work on the extension resumed in January 2020, after pausing at the end of 2016 as a result of delays within the switch of federal funds.
The extension will cost Reais 945m, of which Reais 500m will likely be provided by the Brazilian federal government by way of its Growth Acceleration Programme (PAC). The state authorities of São Paulo will provide the remaining Reais 445m.
