The feasibility study of the Intercities Train, which is a project to connect Vale do Paraíba to the main metropolitan regions of São Paulo, is at its final stage of uptades and will be changed to reduce costs.
The project will be feasible through a PPP (Public-Private Partnership) of US$ 5.4 billion (R$ 17 billion in real). The State has to enter with US$ 1.8 billion (R$ 5.7 billion in real), an amount which currently does not exist in the public safes.
To solve this problem, EDLP (Estação da Luz Participações), which is responsible for the feasibility study, is going to deliver in the second semester a update of the original project, concluded five years ago. The idea is that the company which wins the bidding for the Intercities Train also explores one of the CPTM lines (Companhia Paulista de trens Metropolitanos).
The rail project will connect the metropolitan regions of Campinas, São Paulo, vale do Paraíba, Sorocaba and Baixada Santista. Campinas was chosen to begin the project for having the biggest demand: 68,384 passengers a day. The metropolitan region of Vale comes next, with 48,392 passengers a day. Baixada Santista (32,564) and Sorocaba (20,440) appear in the sequence. However, the section of Vale will be the last to be finished.
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