Overview
- The operator presented the expansion plan at the Alamys congress, and Ositrán has approved the project profile to reach one million daily riders.
- ProInversión and the Transport Ministry are coordinating the required contract addendum, with board chair Luis del Carpio projecting a signing window in March–April 2026.
- Phase 1 spans three stages targeting shorter headways: about 3.5 years to reach 2.5-minute intervals and more than 800,000 daily riders, then roughly 4.5 years to achieve 2-minute intervals and over 1 million.
- The third stage of Phase 1 includes installing CBTC train control, and Phase 2 would follow under a second addendum with an estimated US$700 million to cut headways to 1.5 minutes and surpass 1.2 million daily riders.
- Line 1 currently carries over 600,000 passengers per day, with demand growing around 11% annually as new connections to Line 2 and the Metropolitano increase pressure on capacity.