Transportation Pereira, Colombia

1 transportation

1.1 air
1.2 road
1.3 sitm or mass public transport

1.3.1 urban bus
1.3.2 cable car
1.3.3 megabus
1.3.4 cesar gaviria trujillo viaduct

transportation

matecana international airport


air

pereira s airport matecaña international airport. built between 1944 , 1946 , opened in august 1947. operates both nationally , internationally. undergoing large expansion include new control tower, longer runway, new access roads , new destinations such new york, make matecaña international airport 1 of important of country. in 2016, airport has launched tendering process construction of new terminal building. both runway expansions have been completed new control tower, modern , technological control tower in country. zoo has moved out of matecaña zoo , has been moved new biopark ukumari, means these lands have been given airport use more expansion access road , office , hotel complex.

road

pereira @ center of transport hub caldas, risaralda , quindio. autopista del café highways connect armenia, manizales, pereira , cartago. (coffee freeway). other main urban highways include: 30 august avenue, circunvalar avenue, americas avenue, railway avenue, belalcazár avenue, river avenue , streets sixth, seventh , eighth , other highways. pereira street system aligned in grid system, road numbers going in carreras river otun, , street number going neighbourhood alfonso lopez. important note beyond alfonso lopez, streets become affixed letter e, denote east, example kennedy neighourhood composed of streets street 7e, street 10e , on.

sitm or mass public transport

pereira undergoing transitional phase, in traditional buses of city replaced mass public transportation system cable car system.

urban bus

soon replaced, bus system has 50 routes in city, has cost of $1.800 paid directly driver in cash, has coverage in areas of city.

cable car

part of new development plan of new mayor juan pablo gallo m build 3 new lines of cable cars across city. mexican transportation consultants transconsult investigating viable routes , locations cable car. has been announced possible route can industrial park (parque industrial) airport, villa santana utp university , villa verde city center. construction on first line scheduled commence ending 2017 or first month of 2018. has been announced first line built between olaya park , villa santana, connecting transport terminal , university. upon completion longest cable car in colombia. on march 2017, local government began design studies , estimated begin construction in october 2017.

megabus in city center


megabus

megabús mass transport system of pereira founded in 2006. comprises 3 trunk routes link dosquebradas , cuba, , feeder routes connect rest of metropolitan area including la virginia, puerto caldas, cerritos, morelia, , many other neighbourhoods, connect trunk routes @ interchanger stations. since 2016, megabus has embarked on task of connecting entire city, new routes important areas of city before didn t have megabus route. 1 of these new routes utp university vía américas avenue , transport station.

cesar gaviria trujillo viaduct

pilares del viaducto césar gaviria trujillo.

the architectural award-winning césar gaviria trujillo viaduct, cable-stayed bridge, opened on 15 november 1997. named after césar gaviria, 40th president of colombia, born in city of pereira. viaduct links pereira dosquebradas , cities of armenia, pereira , manizales. length of centre span 211 metres (692 ft), 1 of longest in south america.