Four major railway mass-transit systems in Venezuela—the Caracas Metro, Maracaibo Metro, Valencia Metro, and the National Institute of Railways (IFE), which links the Valles del Tuy with the capital—resumed commercial service on Sunday, June 28, following a suspension triggered by last Wednesday’s earthquake.
Authorities completed exhaustive infrastructure reviews and granted authorization in line with acting president Delcy Rodríguez’s directives to restore basic services and gradually rebuild national mobility.
The formal restart announcement came from Transport Minister Jacqueline Faría, who spoke from the La Guaira Customs House alongside Land Transport Vice Minister Claudio Farías and Transport Planning and Development Vice Minister Eladio Jiménez. Faría confirmed that the green light was given after a thorough situational diagnosis of each system.
“We have been given the authorization after an exhaustive analysis of the entire situational diagnosis of the Caracas Metro, Valencia Metro, and Maracaibo Metro, that we can resume operations,” Faría stated, adding that officials carried out rail-by-rail evaluations, tunnel inspections, and checks of the central control office’s automated systems and overall metro operations to guarantee safety.
The reactivation of the Los Teques Metro system, however, has been postponed, and its commercial service will remain suspended until further notice. The measure is necessary to correct specific technical faults generated by the seismic events.
Author: vmmh
Source: agencies
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