Metro de Lima - Linea 1

Line 1 is the first route of the Lima Metro that provides transportation services in the eastern sector of the city of Lima. It entered into operation on July 11, 2011 and its commercial operation began on April 5, 2012. Currently Line 1 is managed by the AATE (Autonomous Authority of the Electric Train) and its commercial operation is in charge of the companies Graña y Montero and Ferrovías.

The route of Line 1 has a route from the city in the south to the northeast direction, connecting eleven districts in a route at surface level in the south zone and in elevated viaduct in the center-east and northeast zones of the city. It has an extension of 34 km and has 26 stations of which 6 stations are at ground level and 20 on elevated viaduct. The time it takes to complete its journey from the southern terminal of Villa El Salvador to the northern Bayóvar terminus covers 54 minutes of travel.2 3

Line 1 had two openings to the service of the public within the whole of its route: The first called "first section" that unites the districts of Villa El Salvador with Cercado de Lima was opened in July 2011 and the second called "second section" that connects the districts of Cercado de Lima with San Juan de Lurigancho, the most populated district of the city, was opened in May 2014.

Through the opening of the second section, Line 1 managed to transport approximately 320,000 passengers per day, a demand that was registered in 2015 and constitutes a high figure that exceeded the estimated demand for the year 2035. Reason for this increase in passengers, the The Ministry of Transport and Communications and the operator consortium of Line 1 signed an addendum for the additional acquisition of Alstom Metropolis 9000 trains with the aim of reducing the frequency of time and alleviating the collapse of the stations with the highest passenger demand.

The history of Line 1, being the first, is at the same time the history of the Lima Metro as a system. It began in 1986 when AATE called a public tender for the implementation of this system and the contest was won by the so-called "Tralima Consortium" of Italian capital. This consortium started the construction of the infrastructure for a metro in a high viaduct. On October 17, 1986, the "first stone" was placed near the Higuereta Oval in what is now the Los Cabitos station on Line 1.

Next, the construction of a 120,000 m2 Patio Workshop was started in the Villa El Salvador district, south of the city, for the parking of the trains and their preventive maintenance. The construction progressed relatively quickly for a couple of years, but when construction reached the district of San Juan de Miraflores (specifically when arriving at Atocongo Station) the country was in a deep economic and social crisis, which motivated will paralyze the work, after an investment of 226 million dollars in co-financing with the Italian government and under suspicion of bribery.