Offer for the train between Bogotá and Cundinamarca

Thousands of people move daily from the various municipalities surrounding Bogotá to the interior of the city, supporting long journeys and high ticket costs . For this reason at the end of last year a project was announced to create Regiotram a suburban train, for which an agreement had already been concluded between the governorate of Cundinamarca and the national government.

After several months of waiting, the government announced that in March 2019 the bidding process will be open, and it is expected that beginning of October beginning of construction

The project aims to facilitate the life of the inhabitants of the so-called dormitories, connecting Bogotá to Facatativa by a line of train-tram of 41,3 kilometers ] which will also pbad by Mosquera, Madrid and Funza

It will have an investment between 2.5 and 3.3 billion pesos of which 70% will be in charge of the nation. Resources were allocated after two years of discussions during which it was determined that Bogotá would not contribute to resources given the expenses involved in other mobility projects such as Metro and the new main lines of Transmilenio.

of which twelve will be located in Bogotá (one of them will be a connection to El Dorado airport) and the rest outside the city. For this, the existing railway structure in the capital will be used, from The station of La Sabana in the center

By the ways will be mobilized 21 trains which will have an average speed of 70 kilometers per hour in the savannah and 28 in the urban area, which considerably reduces travel time, since the road from Facatativá to Bogotá will be only 48 minutes

In addition to this, the train will have the same payment system as the integrated public transport system for which only one card will be needed to carry out transfers to Transmilenio, SITP buses and the future metro.

The cost of the ticket will vary depending on: at the place where the Regiotram system came in. In Bogotá, it will have a value of $ 2,200 and in Facatativa it will be 6,300.

The system is expected to begin operating between 2022 and 2023 and has a mobilization capacity greater than 1 2 million people.