Guidao Traffic Construction Supervision Limited Company, a subsidiary of Guangzhou Metro Group, has won a contract to design and build Macau’s Light Rapid Transit (LRT) East Line, the group received news from local authorities last Thursday.
According to TDM, the deal, worth more than MOP330 million, will run the 7.65-kilometer LRT East Line between the Barrier Gate border crossing and the Taipa Ferry Terminal at Pak-On via Zone A and Zone E reclaimed land. It connects and spans six stations. .
The total cost of the entire LRT East project is estimated at around MOP20 billion and the project will take six years to complete.
Guangzhou Metro Group said its subsidiary was responsible for “providing management and technical assistance, including designing the project and managing construction work.”
Meanwhile, the Macau government has not officially announced that a Guangdong company will be awarded the contract for the future eastern line of the Macau LRT.
According to Macau Light Rapid Transit Corporation Limited: East Line It has Macau’s first undersea tunnel, which operates regardless of weather conditions affecting the city.
East line is one of them. 4 new railroad lines The other three new LRT lines, namely the Taipa-Barra section, the Sek Pai Van section and the Macau-Hengqin section, are expected to be completed by 2025. When these four projects are completed, Macau’s LRT network will reach approximately 24 kilometers.
In May this year, Director General Kelvin Lam Hin Sang of the Department of Transportation predicted that by 2030, LRT passenger traffic per day would increase from an average of 2,880 passengers per day in 2020 to 137,000 passengers per day. population would need to be reached. In 2030 he will be 791,000.
Macau currently has a population of about 649,000.
