Roca Line: will add 200 new electric cars

The disbursement has been authorized by the Official Journal and includes spare parts, software, training and technological updating of the entire fleet, with better lighting, information for pbadengers and new equipment.

"We are making significant investments in the entire railway system, with new viaducts, electrification, automatic train braking, road renewal, and communication and signaling systems." The new equipment is an additional element of all the changes we are making to metro trains ", badured the Minister of Transport Guillermo Dietrich.

The electric fleet of the General Roca line is nowadays integrated with 20 formations (Toshibas of Japanese and national manufacture, which began to circulate in 1985 with the inauguration of services in Glew and Ezeiza), without air conditioning, without air suspension, without saving energy consumption, without intelligent closing of the doors, which will no longer be outstanding.

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In addition, there are 42 new formations – with a total of 294 cars – (CSR, made in China), acquired in 2013, with 7 cars each. The 62 teams carry more than 600,000 pbadengers a day.

With the purchase approved by the official gazette, El Roca will have 62 entirely new trainings of greater capacity (8 cars each), air-conditioning, smart-closing doors, suspension pneumatic and energy saving. And the addition of a car will carry 20% more pbadengers.

From the Ministry of Transport, it was clarified that in the Roca Line 71 kilometers of tracks have already been electrified (between Constitución and La Plata, Claypole and Bosques and Bosques-Berazategui), which means a much quieter service, modern and comfortable with emissions less polluting. New stations and low steps were also inaugurated and the automatic braking facility is advanced in all branches of the line.

The head of the Constitution is being renovated to restore its historic luminosity, both the lobby and the platforms and the basement. It has a modern camera surveillance center that operates 24 hours a day and allows for quick detection of crime or emergency situations. It monitors in real time 176 cameras installed.

On the other hand, a $ 500 million investment is underway in the La Plata branch with funding from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) that has enabled the branch's electrification and renewal of the facilities. stations, as well as the construction of a new depot. for trains in Tolosa, a new electrical sub-station, a viaduct and a low-altitude crossing, the complete replacement of routes as well as signaling and communications.