The
Seville metro is a light metro network serving the city of
SevilleSeville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...
,
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and its
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. The system is totally independent of any other rail or street traffic. All stations were built with
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.
It was the sixth Metro system to be built in Spain, after those in
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,
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, Valencia,
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and
Palma de MallorcaThe Palma Metro is a metro line in Palma, Spain. It consists of nine stations and was constructed between 2005 and 2007 at cost of 312 million euros.Trains run daily from 06:15 to 23:00....
. Currently, it is the fifth biggest Metro company in Spain by number of passengers carried (more than 12,000,000 in 2009).
Old project
Construction of a metro in Seville began in 1974 with three proposed lines, covering only the city of Seville:
- Line 1:
- Stops: La Plata, Puerta Jerez, Plaza Nueva, Plaza del Duque, Alameda, Macarena, Pino Montano.
- Line 2:
- Stops: Santa Clara, Polígono San Pablo, Alhóndiga, Plaza del Duque, Marqués de Paradas, El Tardón, Rubén Darío.
- Line 3:
- Stops: Heliópolis, San Bernardo, Menéndez y Pelayo, Recaredo, Macarena, Cartuja.
This project was cancelled in 1983, after construction had begun on some of the
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s, due to fears that historic buildings might be damaged. The economic viability of the metro was also questionable in a city whose population had not grown as much as predicted.
New project
In 1999 a new metro project was started by the
Seville Metro Corporation (in 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
SevilleSeville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...
and its metropolitan area (1,500,000 inhabitants) formed by four lines, all of them, completely independent of other traffic.
Lines
| Metro de Sevilla |
| Line |
Terminals |
Length |
Stations |
In service |
Opened |
| |
Ciudad Expo
Olivar Quintos |
18 km |
22 |
21 |
2/04/2009 |
|
| |
Torreblanca
Puerta Triana |
13.4 km |
18 |
0 |
2017 (partial) |
| |
Pino Montano
Bermejales |
11.5 km |
17 |
0 |
2017 (partial) |
| |
Circular line |
17.7 km |
24 |
0 |
2017 (partial) |