SITVA

SITVA
Train near Berrío Park station
Overview
Owner	Department of Antioquia, Medellín City
Locale	Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Transit type	Rapid transit Aerial tramway Translohr Bus rapid transit Bicycle-sharing system
Number of lines	12[1]
Line number	(Níquia-La Estrella) (San Antonio-San Javier) (Acevedo-Santo Domingo) (San Javier-La Aurora) (Santo Domingo-Arví) (Oriente-Villa Sierra) (Miraflores-Trece de Noviembre) (Acevedo-El Progreso) (under construction) (U. de M.-Parque Aranjuez/Ferrocarril Ave.) (U. de M.-Parque Aranjuez/Oriental Ave.) (South Corridor) (under construction) (San Antonio-Oriente) (Caribe-La Palma)
Number of stations	65 stations[2] 48 stops
Daily ridership	1.5 million (weekday 2019)[3]
Annual ridership	249 million (2020)[4]
Website	SITVA
Operation
Number of vehicles	80 trains (3 cars per train)[2] 498 gondolas 31 articulated buses (30 gas + 1 electric) 111 feeding buses 12 trams
Technical
System length	85.12 km (52.9 mi)[2]
System map

SITVA (Sistema Integrado de Transporte del Valle de Aburrá or Aburrá Valley Integrated Transport System) is the public transportation system of Medellín and its metropolitan area. It allows people from the Metropolitan Area of Medellín to move across the ten Aburrá Valley municipalities using different transport modes. It uses integrated fares and a single payment card ().

Components[]

Medellín Metro currently comprises two lines: Line A, which is 25.8 kilometres (16.0 mi) long and serves 21 stations, and Line B, which is 5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi) long and serves 6 stations (plus San Antonio station, the transfer station with Line A). There is also a tram line: Line T (Ayacucho Tram).^[2][1]

Additionally, the aerial cable car system, Metrocable, which supplements the Metro system, comprises five lines: Line J with 3 stations (plus one transfer station with Metro Line B),^[1][2] Line K with 3 stations (plus one transfer station with Line L),^[2][1] Line L with one station (plus one transfer station with Line K), Line H with two stations (plus one transfer station with Line T) and Line M with two stations (plus one transfer station with Line T).^[1] SITVA also integrates a bus rapid transit system (), a minibus network called Sistema Integrado de Transporte in Spanish () and a bicycle-sharing system (EnCicla).

As of 2021, there are 27 metro stations, 15 Metrocable stations, 3 tramway stations (+ 6 stops), 20 BRT stations (+ 42 feeding bus stops) in the SITVA network, all listed in the following table; for a total of 65 stations (48 stops); transfer stations are in bold, and the transfer station between metro lines A and B is shown in bold-italic:

Name	Stations	Date of opening	Fleet	Commercial speed	Capacity (per vehicle)	Capacity (passengers/h-direction)	Travel time one journey	Top frequency (rush hour)
Metro services
Line A North to South 25.8 km (16.0 mi)[2] 21 stations[1]	Niquía Bello Madera Acevedo Tricentenario Caribe University Hospital Prado Berrío Park San Antonio Alpujarra Exposiciones Industriales Poblado Aguacatala Ayurá Envigado Itagüí Sabaneta La Estrella	30 November 1995	80 three-car trains; for a total of 240 cars	40 km/h (25 mph); max. speed 80 km/h (50 mph)	300 users per car	41,480	42 minutes	3 minutes
Line B Center to West 5.5 km (3.4 mi)[2] 7 stations[1]	San Antonio Cisneros Suramericana Estadio Floresta Santa Lucía San Javier	29 February 1996				16,231	10.5 minutes	3:50 minutes
Metrocable services
Line K North to Northeast 2.07 km (1.29 mi)[2] 4 stations[1]	Acevedo Andalucía Popular Santo Domingo Savio	7 August 2004	93 gondolas	18 km/h (11 mph)	8 users sitting, 2 standing; for a total of 10 users per gondola	3,000	9 minutes	0:12 minutes
Line J West to North 2.7 km (1.7 mi)[2] 4 stations[1]	San Javier Juan XXIII Vallejuelos La Aurora	3 March 2008	119 gondolas				12 minutes
Line L Northeast to far Northeast 4.8 km (3.0 mi)[2] 2 stations[1]	Santo Domingo Savio Arví	9 February 2010	55 gondolas			1,200	15 minutes	0:14 minutes
Line H East to far Northeast 1.4 km (0.87 mi)[2] 3 stations[1]	Oriente Las Torres Villa Sierra	17 December 2016	44 gondolas			1,800	5 minutes	0:13 minutes
Line M East to Northeast 1.05 km (0.65 mi)[2] 3 stations[1]	Miraflores El Pinal Trece de Noviembre	28 February 2019	49 gondolas			2,500	4 minutes	0:09 minutes
Line P West to Northwest 2.7 km (1.7 mi)[2] 4 stations[1]	Acevedo SENA Doce de Octubre El Progreso	Under construction	138 gondolas (expected)	19 km/h (12 mph) (expected)	10 users sitting, 2 standing; for a total of 12 users per gondola (expected)	4,000 (expected)	10 minutes (expected)	0:11 minutes (expected)
BRT services
Line 1 West to Northeast 12.5 km (7.8 mi)[2] 20 stations[1]	U. de M. Los Alpes La Palma Parque Belén Rosales Fátima Nutibara Industriales Plaza Mayor Cisneros Minorista Chagualo U. de A. Hospital Palos Verdes Gardel Manrique Las Esmeraldas Berlín Parque Aranjuez	22 December 2011	30 gas working buses, 1 fully electric bus; for a total of 31 articulated buses	16 km/h (9.9 mph); max. speed 60 km/h (37 mph)	154 users per bus	3,270	45 minutes	2:45 minutes
Line 3 Southwest/Southeast	South Corridor	Under development
Feeding bus services
Line 2 West to Northeast 13.5 km (8.4 mi)[2] 15 stations + 8 stops[1]	U. de M. (station) Los Alpes (station) La Palma (station) Parque Belén (station) Rosales (station) Fátima (station) Nutibara (station) Industriales (station) Barrio Colombia San Diego Barrio Colón San José La Playa Catedral Metropolitana Palos Verdes (station) Gardel (station) Manrique (station) Las Esmeraldas (station) Berlín (station) Parque Aranjuez (station)	22 April 2013	47 gas feeding buses	13 km/h (8.1 mph); max. speed 60 km/h (37 mph)	90 users per bus	1,417	52 minutes	4:17 minutes
Line O North to South 9 km (5.6 mi)[2] 27 stops[1]	Caribe Floresta La Palma	2 December 2019	64 electric buses	13 km/h (8.1 mph); max. speed 60 km/h (37 mph)	80 users per bus	800	45 minutes	6:00 minutes
Tram services
Line T Center to East 4.2 km (2.6 mi)[2] 3 stations + 6 stops[1]	San Antonio (station) San José Pabellón del Agua Bicentenario Buenos Aires Miraflores (station) Loyola Alejandro Echavarría Oriente (station)	31 March 2016	12 tramway vehicles	16 km/h (9.9 mph); max. speed 70 km/h (43 mph)	300 users per tram	3,807	19 minutes	4:44 minutes
Total
	65 stations (48 stops)	Oldest: 30 November 1995 Newest: 28 February 2019 under construction	240 cars 498 gondolas 31 articulated buses 111 feeding buses 12 tramway	Fastest: max. speed 80 km/h (50 mph) Slowest: 13 km/h (8.1 mph)	Most capacity: 300 users per car/tram Least capacity: 10 users per gondola	82,502	Fastest journey: 4 minutes Slowest journey: 52 minutes	Least wait time: 0:09 minutes Most wait time: 6:00 minutes

Expansions[]

Metrocable[]

Line H of the Metrocable

On 7 August 2004,^[5] the city inaugurated a new line known as "Metro Cable" (Line K). The line starts in the Acevedo Station and goes to the up hill district of Santo Domingo Savio.^[6] This important addition integrated new additions to the city that since the 1960s that previously were not considered part of the "real city".

Line K (Metrocable) of the Metro de Medellín.

On 3 March 2008,^[5] a second "Metro Cable" line (Line J) was inaugurated. The line starts in the San Javier Station and goes through Juan XXIII and Vallejuelos to the La Aurora district.^[6] This new line benefits approximately 150,000 new users.

A new Metrocable line (line L) was inaugurated in 2009^[5] with a transfer station at Santo Domingo Savio Station. This line continues further uphill to El Tambo^[6] in Arví park near Guarne. The reason for constructing this line is because the city wants to promote tourism in the rural area near Lake Guarne. It takes 14 minutes to ascend to El Tambo and there are no intermediate stations.

Line A extension[]

Line A was expanded from Itagüí to La Estrella, in the south of the metropolitan area. A new intermediate station, Sabaneta, built near 67th South Street, was opened on 5 August 2012^[7] and the final station, La Estrella, was built near 77th South Street and opened on 17 September 2012.^[8]

Train line[]

In February 2020 it was announced that Medellín will reactivate the train line between Bello and Caldas.^[9]

References[]

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