Type Monorail Status Under construction Stations 14 | System São Paulo Metro Locale São Paulo, Brazil | |
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Termini São Paulo-Morumbi
São Judas and Jabaquara | ||
Line 17 (Gold) is an under construction monorail project for the São Paulo Metro.
This new line will have 14 stations, beginning at the São Paulo-Morumbi station and ending at the São Judas Station. In contrast to the other metro lines, Line 17 will be a monorail. The line is part of the project that the city had to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
It will have integration with Line 1 (Blue), Line 4 (Yellow), and Line 5 (Lilac) as well as CPTM Line 9 (Emerald).
The layout is designed as 21.5 kilometres (13.4 mi) long and will be opened in three stages. The first one is 3.8 kilometres (2.4 mi) long and is planned for early 2011, linking Congonhas-São Paulo Airport to São Judas Station, with an initial demand 18,000 passengers per day. The second phase, expected to have a demand of 100,000 passengers per day, will begin operations in 2013. It will be 10.8 kilometres (6.7 mi) long and will connect the Morumbi CPTM station and the Jabaquara metro station. The two sections will connect at the future Brooklin Paulista station, forming a "Y".
On 2 June 2011, Metro São Paulo awarded the Monotrilho Integracao consortium of Malaysian rail company Scomi Rail, Brazil's second largest construction company Andrade Gutierrez, CR Almeida and Montagens e Projetos Especiais a R$1.4bn turnkey contract to build the Line 17 monorail. The route is expected to carry 252,000 passengers a day. The consortium will be responsible for design, supply, installation and commissioning of the Sutra straddle monorail, including 24 Scomi SUTRA three-car trains to be provided by Scomi.
The line will be operated as CBTC using Thales SelTrac technology, and is planned to open in June–July 2014.
On 9 June 2014, a concrete support beam collapsed during construction which killed one worker and injuring two others. Completion was scheduled for the start of the World Cup but construction was delayed as it did not receive environmental approvals and as a consequence, it has been delayed until the second half of 2015.
Further delays in the construction has meant that the line will not open until the first quarter of 2018.