The increasing demand for mass transit systems in Venezuela and specifically in Maracaibo, emerged strongly in last decades in order to fill the gap existing in public transportation in the country. It is a boost to the country’s modernization that coupled with the National Rail Plan, are a source of employment level that impacts on future generations growing.

Public transportation in Maracaibo is composed of several lines of buses and the Maracaibo Metro, a rapid transist system.

• Known as: Metro del Sol Amado
• Lines: Just one
• Capacity: 7200 passengers/hour/direction
• Stations: 6 (elevated/ground level)
• Official Website: http://www.metrodemaracaibo.gob.ve/
• Opening: 2006

Lines and stations

First phase of Maracaibo Metro Line 1 consists of 6.3 kms double track extending from east to west of the city; while 4.9 km. of track are ground level and 1.4 km are elevated viaduct. Maracaibo Metro or Metro del Sol Amado (in spanish) is a 1 line system with 6 stations. It’s under construction and some people claims that even ticket machines are not working yet.

Maracaibo Metro Line 1 Stations: Altos de La Vanega, El Varillal, El Guayabal, Sabaneta, Urdaneta, Libertador.

Line 1 Second Stage (just planned): Padilla, Falcón, 5 de Julio, Paraíso, Indio Mara, Universidad, Polideportivo, Galerías, Panamericano, Mercado Periférico, La Curva de Molina

Schedule and frequency

Monday through Friday from 6:00 am to 8:00 pm, and from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on Saturdays and Sundays (might be from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm)

There’s one train every 5-10 minutes during peak hour. Every 10-20 minutes rest of the day.

Fares and Tickets

• One way: 0,50 Bs

Intelligent tickets (boletos inteligentes)
“Intelligent tickets” are multi-travel cards. There are four types of cards: ligero (light) with ten tickets for 4 Bs, fifteen tickets for 6Bs, thirty tickets 12 Bs and students 10 tickets cards that costs 1,5 Bs.

Interesting facts

Trains regenerate energy during braking, allowing energy to be fed back to the system. People can open doors manually to save energy as there is a greate awareness about this.

Airports

La Chinita International Airport is located at the outlet Lake Maracaibo.
Minibuses, buses and taxis connect the airport to the metropolitan area of Maracaibo.
You can take a taxi as the service is reliable. The journey time to the center is 25 minutes. Or you can also go to the Lavanega Altos Station that is 4 kms from the airport and go by Metro.

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Monterrey Metro system is commonly known as Metrorrey. It’s official name in Spanish is Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metrorrey.

MetroRrey goes through the city from NorthEast to East (line 1) and from North to South (line 2). MetroRrey is composed of just 2 lines and 31 stations.
Both metro lines are managed by Sistema de Transporte Colectivo Metrorrey. Length of the whole system is about 20 miles (32kms).
Most part of this system goes elevated. More than 60 millions passengers use MetroRrey every year.

• A.K.A: MetroRrey
• Lines: 2 (yellow and green lines)
• Stations: 32
• Length: 31,5 kms
• Opening: 1991
• Passengers/year: 60 millions

MetroRrey Lines and Stations

• Line 1 (yellow line): It has 19 stations. Line is 18.5 km long. Goes from Talleres to Exposición through San Bernabé, Unidad Modelo, Aztlán, Penitenciaría, Alfonso Reyes, Mitras, Simón Bolívar, Hospital, Edison,
  Central, Cuauhtémoc, Del Golfo, Felix U. Gómez, Parque Fundidora, Y Griega, Eloy Cavazos and Lerdo de Tejada.
  Line 1 links to line 2 at Cuauhtémoc station. This line was inaugurated in 1991.
  It cross the city from West to East and runs on an elevated structure most of the way.
• Line 2 (green line): It has 13 stations. Line is 13.750 km long. Goes from Sendero to General Ignacio Zaragoza through Tapia, San Nicolás, Anáhuac, Universidad, Niños Heroes, Regina, General Anaya, Cuauhtémoc, Alameda, Fundadores and Padre Mier.
  It crosses the city from North to South. Originally inaugurated in 1994, but extendend in 2007 and 2008. Partially run elevated and partially subterranean.

There is a third line currently under a proyection phase that will link Monterrey, San Nicolás y Apodaca
Line 3 would be 7.5 kms long and would have 9 stations, spanning from the Line 2
terminus at General Zaragoza northeast to Hospital Metropolitano, mostly elevated. Stations:
Hospital Metropolitano Station, Los Ángeles Station, Ruiz Cortines Station, Conchello Station, Violeta Station,
Félix U. Gómez Station, Adolfo Prieto Station and Santa Lucia Station.
Government estimates that this line 3 will serve 280,000 passengers/day. This line could be ready in August 2015.

Fares and Tickets

• Single Trip ticket: MXN 4.50
• 2 Trips ticket: MXN 8.50
• 4 Trips ticket: MXN 16.00
• 5 Trips ticket: MXN 20.00
• 6 Trips ticket: MXN 24.00

Multi Trip Tickets

This type of ticket can be purchased with a number of trips included that can range between 15 and 85 trips.
The savings compared to buying single tickets can be up to $100.

Mia Card

Mia Card is a rechargable card that can be refilled with multiple trip credits.
Card price is MXN20 and includes 8 trips.

On Sundays the entrance is free.

More information in this link.

Schedule and Frecuency

The system operates from 05:00 to 00:00. Frequency is about 3.5 minutes during peak times.

Other transport systems in the city.

MetroBus: Complementary transport system in the city, used under a unified ticket.
Same ticket can be used for Metrobus cars and MetroRrey. You can use one of its 5 urban routes to access
any metro station and also MetroRrey fare is included. MetroRrey and MetroBus schedule is the same: from Monday to Sunday,
from 5:00 a.m to 12:00 a.m. Fare: $12.00

Transmetro or Premetro and metroEnlace, are other complementary systems to MetroRrey network.
There is no additional fee, other than the standard Metro Ticket to use Transmetro.

Connection to the Airport

There are two international airports in Monterrey: General Mariano Escobedo International Airport and Del Norte International Airport, both located in Apodaca.
The best way to get to the city is by taxi, always insisting on the use of meter. Thought MetroRrey is a young and modern economic transport system its
coverage is not really great.

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Lines and stations

Valencia Metro is 7 kms long and has a total of 7 stations, although there are several more under construction.
Most of the stations circulate are underground.

Valencia metro currently has 1 built line, line 1. Line 2 has several stations operational. The system is expected to gradually grow to a total of 31 stations and 4 lines.

Line 1 stations

• Monumental
• Las Ferias
• Palotal
• Santa Rosa
• Michelena
• Lara
• Cedeño

Line 2 stations

• Rafael Urdaneta (in service)
• Francisco de Miranda (in service)
• Los Sauces
• El Viñedo
• Majay
• Guaparo

Line 3 stations

• Paramacay
• La Granja
• Caprenco
• Tarapio
• La Campiña
• Simón Bolívar

Line 4 stations

• La Florida
• La Guacamaya
• Cementerio
• Hospital
• Aranzazu
• Lara (in service)
• Lara II
• Branger
• Uslar
• Estadio
• Henry Ford
• Bomberos

Fares and tickets

Standard ticket costs 4,00 BsF.
The elderly and disabled ride free.

Metro Valencia hours and frequency

Although the trains should run every four minutes, the actual frequency is 10 minutes during rush hour and 20 minutes normal schedule.

The metro runs from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 pm

Accessibility

Stations can be accessed via the fixed stations and escalators. There you can purchase your Fichas and Tarjetas Recargables. From here you access the platforms. Not really accessible ready stations.

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Currently there are four lines in service, which includes a total of 44 stations and 54.2 kilometers and transport over 2,000,000 passengers per day. Line 3 has two branches and therefore have four terminal stations, although one may think they are two separate lines, Caracas Metro officially see it as only one.

Caracas Metro Lines

There are currently four metro lines lines with a total of forty-four stations and some 55 kilometers of network and one another one under construction for 2015.

• Line 1- PROPATRIA-PALO VERDE, this line is the oldest in the Caracas Metro System, crosses the city from west to east and has an extension of 20.36 kilometers, with 22 stations. Daily transports 1.200.000 passengers.
• Line 2- LAS ADJUNTAS / ZOOLÓGICO/ EL SILENCIO, opened in 1987, has 17.8 kilometers of length and 13 stations. Transports approximately 250,000 passengers daily.
• Line 3- PLAZA VENEZUELA / EL VALLE,
  opened in 1994, is 4.38 kilometers long and has 4 stations. Carries approximately 120,000 passengers daily. In addition, in 2006 began the extension of this line 3 with the stretch-La Rinconada Valley, which can integrate the inhabitants of the Valle del Tuy with the Caracas Metro. It has an extension of 5.9 km from the station El Valle to station Simon Bolivar from where the rail to the Valle del Tuy departs.
• Line 4- CAPUCHINOS-ZONA RENTAL this branch operates as an extension of Line 2 and carries approximately 40,000 passengers daily. It opened in 2006, and covers an area of 5.5 kilometers with four stations.

Future expansions:

The extension of Line 4 to the east is under construction with a distance of 6.3 km comprising the journey from station Zona Rental to station East Park. Are also projected lines 5 and 6. Line 5 (Zona Rental – Waraira Repano) to start operating in 2015, with 14.3 kms and 10 stations.

Major stations:

Because of its location in the center of the city and its confluence with Line 1, and connections to Lines 3 and 4 (this last one through a parallel station: Zona Rental Station) Plaza Venezuela Station has the largest number of passengers.

Metro Opening Hours

It works from 05:30 am to 23.00 p.m

Frequency step

Is 1 ½ minutes at peak hours and on Sundays and holidays the frequency is between 4 and 6 minutes.

Fares and Tickets

• Single: a journey in Metro without limit of stations. The ticket costs 1.5 Bs
• Integrated: a journey in Metro and a journey in Metrobus without limit of stations. The ticket costs 1.5 Bs.
• Return Ticket: dos journeys in Metro without limit of stations. The ticket costs 3 Bs..
• Multipass: ten Metro journeys without limit of stations. The ticket costs 13,5Bs and is orange coloured.
• Integrated Multipass: ten Metro journeys or ten Metrobus journeys without limit of stations. The ticket costs 13,5Bs.
• Students Multipass: Exclusively for people between 4 and 35 years old who study in the area of influence of the service of the Caracas Metro.
• MetroCard: you have to buy the card (card price is 5BS), and can be recharged with 20, 30 and 40 runs. Nothing more can be recharged the same method that was used the first time, that is, if you recharge for the first time with 20 trips should continue recharging with 20 trips. To be able to recharge, you must exhaust all travel there in it.

Airport

International Airport Caracas Simon Bolivar or as it is known, Maiquetia is Venezuela’s main airport and is located 26 km north of Caracas.

Every 30 minutes leaves a shuttle bus to downtown Caracas, this Bus service to Caracas-Maiquetia-Caracas goes straight to Central Park (opposite the Tacagua Bldg) and travel time to the center is about 40 minutes.The buses run from 06:00 a.m. to until 21.00horas. The authorized rate is 30.00 Bs.

Bus stops are located in the Public Area, Level 2, center of the hallway, in the domestic terminal of the airport. The public bus makes stops at Black Cat Metro Station, Plaza O ‘Leary, Plaza Miranda, El Silencio, Metro Station Fine Arts and Central Park, final stop.

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