São Paulo Guarulhos airport to get monorail connecting airport with local subway and trains
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Construction of the monorail, which will connect the terminals of Guarulhos International Airport with Line 13 – Jade of the São Paulo Metropolitan Trains Company (CPTM), is scheduled to begin in 90 days. Currently, after getting off at the platform, you have to take a bus to get to the neighboring city of São Paulo.
This announcement was made by the Secretary of State for Urban Transportation, Alexandre Baldy, during a lecture for entrepreneurs at the headquarters of the Association of Commerce of São Paulo (ACSP).
According to him, the National Agency of Civil Aviation (Anac) approved an addendum that transfers the responsibility to the concessionaire GRU Airport, which manages the terminal this week.
For its part, the concessionaire said that “the addendum to the concession contract, which provides for the implementation of the fast connection project between the CPTM station and the passenger terminals, still needs to be deliberated by the National Secretariat of Civil Aviation.
The Secretary said that CPTM Line 13 would go as far as the Bonsucesso district of Guarulhos, which has a population of more than one million people.
GRU AIRPORT
São Paulo/Guarulhos (GRU) – Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport – is the busiest in Brazil in terms of transported passengers, aircraft operations, and cargo handled in 2020, placing it as the second busiest airport in Latin America by passenger traffic (20,322,520 in 2020) after Mexico City International Airport (21,981,711).
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