San Miguelito metrocable will be a concession

A metro cableway to carry 3,000 people an hour to connections with Metro lines 1 and 2 proposed for the San Miguelito district will operate as an administrative  concession say specifications for the prequalification stage of interested companies published in Panama Compra,

According to estimates from the Comptroller General over 400,000 people live in San Miguelito.

The work is expected to be composed of five stations, a parking lot and the control area of the cable car.

The work will be done with private financing that the concessionaire will contribute, The cost of the project will be defined by studies that will take place once the bidding process is concluded.

San Miguelito, mayor  Gerald Cumberbatch says the project will be awarded by Apri.l

To date, there are two possible routes for the metre cable. Both would depart from the Belisario Frías corregimiento, specifically from Cerro Batea. The first route would end at the Los Andes station on line 1 of the Metro, and the second at El Crisol station on line 2.