Native name Metro de Sevilla Annual ridership 14.45 million (2014) | Number of stations 22 | |
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Transit type Rapid transit/Light metro Number of lines 1 (+ 3 in planning phase) | ||
The Seville Metro (Spanish: Metro de Sevilla) is a 18-kilometre (11 mi) light metro network serving the city of Seville, Spain and its metropolitan area. The system is totally independent of any other rail or street traffic. All 22 stations were built with platform screen doors.
Contents
- Original project
- Revised metro project
- Line 1
- Rolling stock
- Line 2 in planning phase
- Line 3 in planning phase
- Line 4 in planning phase
- Tram lines
- Future tramlines
- References
It was the sixth Metro system to be built in Spain, after those in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao and Palma de Mallorca. Currently, it is the fifth biggest Metro company in Spain by number of passengers carried – it carried 14.45 million passengers in 2014.
Original project
Construction of a metro in Seville began in 1974 with three proposed lines, covering only the city of Seville:
This project was cancelled in 1983 for political reasons with the budget from the central government reassigned to other infrastructure in Andalusia by the newly created Junta de Andalucía and also to the Bilbao Metro project instead, after 5 Billion Pesetas had already been spent. The official reasons given were fear that historic buildings might be damaged and economic viability.
Revised metro project
In 1999 a new metro project was started by the Seville Metro Corporation (Spanish: Sociedad del Metro de Sevilla), founded by a former mayor of Seville. It was scheduled to be completed in 2006, but only began operation on 2 April 2009.
The new project plans a network covering Seville and its metropolitan area (1,500,000 inhabitants) formed by four lines, all of them, completely independent of other traffic.
Line 1
Rolling stock
The Seville Metro fleet consists of 17 articulated low-floor Urbos 2 light rail vehicles (LRVs) manufactured by CAF. The Urbos 2 LRVs are 31-metre (102 ft) long, 2.65-metre (8.7 ft) wide, and 3.3-metre (11 ft) tall, with a total 6 doors on each side. Seating capacity per LRV vehicle is 192 passengers/vehicle (60 seated, 132 standing). The Urbos 2 LRVs have air conditioning. LRVs are powered by an overhead power supply at 750 Volts.