“As a partner of the Toulouse “I use the Santiago metro authorities since 1985 for the first every day to go to university, automated metro line, SYSTRA and the journey takes exactly has strong local roots and in-depth 10 minutes from Alcántara knowledge of transport in the station to Baquedano station. city. Since then, its worldwide It’s an efficient means of transport reputation for engineering has that is much appreciated by the gone from strength to strength. locals. The metro is working It guarantees the high quality properly, at the right speed. standards of the SYSTRA brand The network provides access to for this project, which will shape almost every part of the city. It the future of the Toulouse would be difficult to get around metropolitan area.” Santiago without the metro!” Joël Schaack, José Pedro Gómez Miranda, Project Manager Tisséo Ingénierie, Passenger and student, Chile France Brought into service in 1975, the Santiago de Chile metro serves Toulouse metro line C is on track and expects 200,000 passengers all the city’s districts, with seven lines and more than 130 stations. a day by the end of 2028. Since the first feasibility study, which laid the The Group has been entrusted with the design foundations for the Chilean capital’s network, of the third metro line, which will link the main SYSTRA has been working with Santiago to extend employment and business areas in the Toulouse and then automate its metro system. The Group urban area via 21 stations spread over 27km. worked on more than 80% of the length of the The future line C will serve an urban area with network, which is now used by more than 2.5 million more than a million residents and accelerate passengers a day. Each of the seven lines modal shift. With 90,000 fewer vehicles on incorporates cutting-edge innovations designed by the road, it will avoid 250,000km of polluting SYSTRA: from the world-first patented U-shaped journeys, in other words 6 times round viaduct on line 5 to the 100% automated control the world every day! system deployed on lines 3 and 6 from their inauguration. This fruitful collaboration continues, with two new missions underway. | 91