Blue corridor planning
Introduction
One of the major current problems in the city of Lima is related to public transportation (according to the Lima Como Vamos association in 2022).[1] This situation has led to the construction, by municipal authorities, of viaducts, bridges, road interchanges, expressways and overpasses as a formula to solve the constant congestion.[2][3].
According to the newspaper El Comercio "El Comercio (Perú)") in 2023, six out of every ten city residents will resort to low-budget public means such as buses, coasters and combis.[4] This is why public and private transportation systems began to be developed, such as the Lima Metro, whose objective is to become the backbone of transportation in the city in addition to improving the safety and quality of the transportation service in Lima,[5] as well as the Metropolitan Transportation System. "Metropolitano (Lima)") which must function as a secondary and support system with its feeders to the main metro network, in addition to the construction of bicycle lanes in Metropolitan Lima and the new Lima Integrated Transportation System.
In 2023, by supreme decree, the securitization trust was established to finance new transportation and urban mobility infrastructure projects for all of Lima and Callao.[6].
Metro
The Lima Metro, also known as Lima Electric Train[7] is a railway transportation system made up of overhead and underground lines that runs through the city of Lima, from Villa El Salvador in its southern end to San Juan de Lurigancho in the northeastern part of the capital. Line 1 "Line 1 (Lima Metro)") operates almost entirely under the elevated viaduct system, however it was determined that Line 2 "Line 2 (Lima Metro)") and the following four lines will be underground.[8][9] When its first section was completed in 1990, the system had a 9.2 km viaduct metro line, crossing three districts: Villa El Salvador, Villa María del Triunfo and San Juan de Miraflores.[7].
Although this initial section had thirty-two cars and seven stations, the metro was never put into operation, because it did not have enough distance or demand to make it commercially profitable.[10].
At the beginning of 2010, during the second government of President Alan García, the construction project of the extension of Line 1 "Line 1 (Lima Metro)") from the Atocongo Station "Atocongo (Lima Metro)") in the district of San Juan de Miraflores to the Dos de Mayo National Hospital on Avenida Grau (in the center of Lima) began, adding a total of 21.48 km of route.[11] With the conclusion of this new section, the Lima Metro was officially inaugurated on July 11, 2011.[12] In November 2011, construction began on the final section of Line 1 "Line 1 (Lima Metro)"), which reaches a total of 35 km in length and whose commissioning took place in July 2014.