State plans to invest US$ 4 bi until 2010 in the purchase of trains
DCI - 12/19/2007
Yesterday, the governor of São Paulo, Jose Serra (PSDB), delivered four trains of the Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos (CPTM) - the São Paulo Metropolitan Train Company - which have undergone restoration. Three of them belong to F Line (Brás-Calmon Viana) and the other one to A Line (Luz-Francisco Morato). The event was held at the Brás Station, in the capital. The train fleet will favor 500 thousand passengers who use the trains on a daily basis (140 thousand in the F Line and 365 thousand in the A Line). With the restoration, the trains that resume operation went through the recovery and general revision of several equipment and components. Little by little, all F Line trains will be remodeled: six had already been restored, yesterday the government delivered three other and, until February, there will be four other. Serra said that the State has been making short, mid, and long-term investments in the public transportation sector. "We will invest more than R$ 7 billion (US$ 4 billion) until 2010, buying 99 sets, which are, in fact, the basic measures for the improvement of both the Subway and the transportation offered by the CPTM", he remarked. Adding the investment of the Subway, CPTM, and EMTU, through the Expansion Plan of the Secretariat for Metropolitan Transportation, the government of the state is to invest nearly R$ 16 billion (US$ 9 billion) in the next three years.