Baldy says that train from line 17 can arrive until March.

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According to what was published by the Via Trólebus website on September 28, 2021, the Secretary of Metropolitan Transport, Alexandre Baldy, in an interview with the YouTube channel Money Report, said he believed that trains of the future line 17 – Gold could arrive in March 2022 The owner also said, in the interview, that "the challenge is to make that line work in 2022".

The initial forecast, given by the Integrated Report released by Metrô, was that the first train of the fleet (also called the “head of the series”) of line 17 would arrive at the Água Espraiada yard only in December 2022. This would frustrate the promise of state government to open the new monorail to passengers in the same year because, with this date, and taking into account the times of all the tests that the Metrô will need to make in its trains, the line could only be inaugurated in 2023. However, the anticipation of delivery of compositions, it may be that the state promise is actually fulfilled.

The fleet of line 17, which, in this first phase, will circulate between the Morumbi, Aeroporto – Congonhas and Washington Luís stations, as well as the Água Espraiada yard, will consist of 14 trains of 5 cars each. These are from the Skyrail system, manufactured by the Chinese company BYD, and, when the branch is complete, they will have the capacity to transport a daily flow of 185,000 passengers each.

“If we have the train here, tests can start on the tracks. Therefore, the works at the stations are advanced, most of them are at more than 80% of completion, are in the finishing phase.” – said Baldy.

The former minister of cities in the former government of President Michel Temer added that the obas at Morumbi station, where line 17 will connect with line 9 – Esmeralda from CPTM (Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos), have already been completed, and that the next stop to be completed is Chucri Zaidan.

TEXT BASED ON SITES/CHANNELS:

1- Via Trólebus

2- YouTube channel Money Report

3- Diário do Transporte