SITVA
# SITVA

SITVA (Sistema Integrado de Transporte del Valle de Aburrá in Spanish or Aburrá Valley Integrated Transport System) is the public transportation system of Medellín and its metropolitan area. It allows people from the Metropolitan Area of Medellín to move across the ten Aburrá Valley municipalities using different transport modes. It uses integrated fares and a single payment card (Cívica card).

## Components

SITVA includes the Medellín Metro, currently comprising two lines: Line A, which is 25.8 kilometres (16.0 mi) long and serves 21 stations, and Line B, which is 5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi) long and serves 6 stations (plus San Antonio station, the transfer station with Line A). There is also a tram line: Line T (Ayacucho Tram).

Additionally, the aerial cable car system, Metrocable, which supplements the metro system, comprises six lines: Line J with 3 stations (plus one transfer station with Metro Line B), Line K with 3 stations (plus one transfer station with Metro Line A and one with Line L), Line L with one station (plus one transfer station with Line K), Line H with two stations (plus one transfer station with Line T), Line M with two stations (plus one transfer station with Line T) and Line P with 3 stations (plus one transfer station with Metro Line A). SITVA also integrates a bus rapid transit system (Metroplús), a minibus network called Sistema Integrado de Transporte (SIT) in Spanish and a bicycle-sharing system (EnCicla).

As of 2022, there are 27 metro stations, 15 Metrocable stations, 3 tramway stations (+ 6 tram stops), 20 BRT stations (+ 42 feeding bus stops) in the SITVA network, all listed in the following table; for a total of 65 stations and 48 stops. Transfer stations are in bold, and the transfer station between metro lines A and B is shown in bold-italic:

| Name | Stations | Date of opening | Fleet | Commercial speed | Capacity (per vehicle) | Capacity (passengers/h-direction) | Travel time one journey | Top frequency (rush hour) |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Metro services |||||||||
| Line A North to South 25.8 km (16.0 mi) 21 stations | Niquía Bello Madera Acevedo Tricentenario Caribe University Hospital Prado Berrío Park San Antonio Alpujarra Exposiciones Industriales Poblado Aguacatala Ayurá Envigado Itagüí Sabaneta La Estrella | 30 November 1995 | 80 three-car trains; for a total of 240 cars | 40 km/h (25 mph); max. speed 80 km/h (50 mph) | 300 users per car | 41,480 | 42 minutes | 3 minutes |
| Line B Center to West 5.5 km (3.4 mi) 7 stations | San Antonio Cisneros Suramericana Estadio Floresta Santa Lucía San Javier | 29 February 1996 | 80 three-car trains; for a total of 240 cars | 40 km/h (25 mph); max. speed 80 km/h (50 mph) | 300 users per car | 16,231 | 10.5 minutes | 3:50 minutes |
| Metrocable services |||||||||
| Line K North to Northeast 2.07 km (1.29 mi) 4 stations | Acevedo Andalucía Popular Santo Domingo Savio | 7 August 2004 | 93 gondolas | 18 km/h (11 mph) | 8 users sitting, 2 standing; for a total of 10 users per gondola | 3,000 | 9 minutes | 0:12 minutes |
| Line J West to North 2.7 km (1.7 mi) 4 stations | San Javier Juan XXIII Vallejuelos La Aurora | 3 March 2008 | 119 gondolas | 18 km/h (11 mph) | 8 users sitting, 2 standing; for a total of 10 users per gondola | 3,000 | 12 minutes | 0:12 minutes |
| Line L Northeast to far Northeast 4.8 km (3.0 mi) 2 stations | Santo Domingo Savio Arví | 9 February 2010 | 55 gondolas | 18 km/h (11 mph) | 8 users sitting, 2 standing; for a total of 10 users per gondola | 1,200 | 15 minutes | 0:14 minutes |
| Line H East to far Northeast 1.4 km (0.87 mi) 3 stations | Oriente Las Torres Villa Sierra | 17 December 2016 | 44 gondolas | 18 km/h (11 mph) | 8 users sitting, 2 standing; for a total of 10 users per gondola | 1,800 | 5 minutes | 0:13 minutes |
| Line M East to Northeast 1.05 km (0.65 mi) 3 stations | Miraflores El Pinal Trece de Noviembre | 28 February 2019 | 49 gondolas | 18 km/h (11 mph) | 8 users sitting, 2 standing; for a total of 10 users per gondola | 2,500 | 4 minutes | 0:09 minutes |
| Line P West to Northwest 2.7 km (1.7 mi) 3 stations | Acevedo SENA Doce de Octubre El Progreso | 10 June 2021 | 138 gondolas | 19 km/h (12 mph) | 10 users sitting, 2 standing; for a total of 12 users per gondola | 4,000 | 10 minutes | 0:11 minutes |
| BRT services |||||||||
| Line 1 West to Northeast 12.5 km (7.8 mi) 20 stations | U. de M. Los Alpes La Palma Parque Belén Rosales Fátima Nutibara Industriales Plaza Mayor Cisneros Minorista Chagualo U. de A. Hospital Palos Verdes Gardel Manrique Las Esmeraldas Berlín Parque Aranjuez | 22 December 2011 | 30 gas working buses, 1 fully electric bus; for a total of 31 articulated buses | 16 km/h (9.9 mph); max. speed 60 km/h (37 mph) | 154 users per bus | 3,270 | 45 minutes | 2:45 minutes |
| Line 3 Southwest/Southeast | South Corridor | Under development | | | | | | |
| Feeding bus services |||||||||
| Line 2 West to Northeast 13.5 km (8.4 mi) 15 stations + 8 stops | U. de M. (station) Los Alpes (station) La Palma (station) Parque Belén (station) Rosales (station) Fátima (station) Nutibara (station) Industriales (station) Barrio Colombia San Diego Barrio Colón San José La Playa Catedral Metropolitana Palos Verdes (station) Gardel (station) Manrique (station) Las Esmeraldas (station) Berlín (station) Parque Aranjuez (station) | 22 April 2013 | 47 gas feeding buses | 13 km/h (8.1 mph); max. speed 60 km/h (37 mph) | 90 users per bus | 1,417 | 52 minutes | 4:17 minutes |
| Line O North to South 9 km (5.6 mi) 27 stops | Caribe Floresta La Palma | 2 December 2019 | 64 electric buses | 13 km/h (8.1 mph); max. speed 60 km/h (37 mph) | 80 users per bus | 800 | 45 minutes | 6:00 minutes |
| Tram services |||||||||
| Line T Center to East 4.2 km (2.6 mi) 3 stations + 6 stops | San Antonio (station) San José Pabellón del Agua Bicentenario Buenos Aires Miraflores (station) Loyola Alejandro Echavarría Oriente (station) | 31 March 2016 | 12 tramway vehicles | 16 km/h (9.9 mph); max. speed 70 km/h (43 mph) | 300 users per tram | 3,807 | 19 minutes | 4:44 minutes |
| Total |||||||||
| | 65 stations (48 stops) | Oldest: 30 November 1995 Newest: 6 June 2021 | 240 cars 498 gondolas 31 articulated buses 111 feeding buses 12 tramway | Fastest: max. speed 80 km/h (50 mph) Slowest: 13 km/h (8.1 mph) | Most capacity: 300 users per car/tram Least capacity: 10 users per gondola | 82,502 | Fastest journey: 4 minutes Slowest journey: 52 minutes | Least wait time: 0:09 minutes Most wait time: 6:00 minutes |

## Expansions

### Metrocable

On 7 August 2004, the city inaugurated a new line known as "Metro Cable" (Line K). The line starts in the Acevedo Station and goes to the up hill district of Santo Domingo Savio. This important addition integrated new additions to the city that since the 1960s that previously were not considered part of the "real city".

On 3 March 2008, a second "Metro Cable" line (Line J) was inaugurated. The line starts in the San Javier Station and goes through Juan XXIII and Vallejuelos to the La Aurora district. This new line benefits approximately 150,000 new users.

A new Metrocable line (line L) was inaugurated in 2009 with a transfer station at Santo Domingo Savio Station. This line continues further uphill to El Tambo in Arví park near Guarne. The reason for constructing this line is because the city wants to promote tourism in the rural area near Lake Guarne. It takes 14 minutes to ascend to El Tambo and there are no intermediate stations.

### Line A extension

Line A was expanded from Itagüí to La Estrella, in the south of the metropolitan area. A new intermediate station, Sabaneta, built near 67th South Street, was opened on 5 August 2012 and the final station, La Estrella, was built near 77th South Street and opened on 17 September 2012.

### Train line

In February 2020 it was announced that Medellín will reactivate the train line between Bello and Caldas.

