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The Government of São Paulo will announce on Thursday (17) the resumption of works on Line 17-Ouro do Metrô, a monorail that will connect the Congonhas airport with the network on the city’s rails and which represented a legal headache for the state over the last few years.
On Thursday, Governor João Doria (PSDB) will sign a service order to resume civil construction works with Coesa Engenharia. The work is divided into different contracts, the three main ones for the supply of trains, specifically for the Morumbi station and the one that will be signed now, for civil construction.
The contract includes the execution of the remaining works of the line, in addition to the finishes, landscaping, visual communication and hydraulic installations of the stations, as well as the construction of a bike lane, recapitulation of Roberto Marinho avenue and the construction of a sports center and community.
The term foreseen in the contract is 30 months from the first order of service (that is, two and a half years), but the government says that if there are no more interruptions and questions in the courts, it is possible that the monorail will start operating . in 2022.
Line 17-Ouro will have eight stations in 7.7 km (6.7 km of which are operational sections) and will connect Congonhas airport with Morumbi station on CPTM line 9-Esmeralda, which is located on the Pinheiros boardwalk. Metrô expects to carry 165,000 passengers per business day in 2023, once it is completed, according to a company report in October.
The stations will be: Congonhas, Jardim Aeroporto, Brooklin Paulista, Councilor José Diniz, Campo Belo, Vila Cordeiro, Chucri Zaidan and Morumbi.
The monorail will also interconnect with Metro line 5-Lilac, at Campo Belo station.
In the initial project, integration with Line 4-Amarilla was also planned and the monorail would pass through the Paraisópolis favela, but this extension was suspended and there is no deadline for its resumption.
Initially promised to go into operation at the 2014 World Cup, the 17-Gold line monorail presents a number of legal muddles. In 2019, the Monorail Integration Consortium, led by Andrade Gutiérrez, was removed from the work for not complying with the schedule and fined R $ 88 million.
In a new tender, last year, Coesa Engenharia, which will now touch the remaining works, was behind Constran Internacional, but the process was canceled by the Justice.
In September this year, Coesa was chosen by Metrô, in a process that was again annulled, but which was released by the court in November.
Another contract, for the manufacture of trains for line 17, signed earlier this year with BYD following blockades with other manufacturers, was also resumed in September.
The monorail is a kind of wheeled train that runs on a high structure and is operated by Metrô, a state company under the direction of João Doria (PSDB).
This type of transport has always been a headache for the São Paulo government, since it was questioned by specialists and even by Metro technicians from the beginning, who said that it would not work with high passenger transport capacity.
But the headache turned into a nightmare at the end of February this year, when a tire of a compound of the 15-Silver line, in the east, exploded and fell on the avenue below the line. The line was inactive for more than three months, generating huge lines, crowds and delays for residents of the region.
Before that, line 15 had already seen other serious failures, such as a collision between two trains and the collapse of a wall of one of the new stations on the stairs that give access to the platform.
In addition to this, the Government of São Paulo had planned since 2009 to build a monorail that would connect the capital with ABC Paulista, between the Tamanduateí metro station and São Bernardo do Campo, but the project was abandoned in July last year and replaced by a BRT (English for fast bus transportation system).
