Better late than never

Lima can do better than this! A few years ago, the mayor of Madrid, Spain determined to buiold a new subway line. He cut through the paperwork and bureaucracy, awarded contracts, and the new line opened in about one year. If they can do it in Spain, they can do it in Peru! We need political will-power, and corruption should be abolished!

Busways only create more pollution and traffic problems. A city of over eight million people needs several metro lines, augmented by light rail lines. One only needs to look at the systems in place in Zurich, Toronto, Amsterdam, Oslo, Montreal, Rotterdam, Munich, Berlin, Warsaw, Gotenburg, Milan, Vienna, Prague, Krakow, San Francisco/Oakland, Salt Lake City, Denver, Stuttgart, Budapest, Houston, Moscow, Dallas, Frankfurt, Dresden, Brussels, Antwerp, Paris, Geneva, Basle, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Helsinki, Hannover, Mannheim/Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Cologne and numerous other world cities to observe the excellent use and blending of non-polluting metro/subway and light rail systems. Lima can also be a world class city if there is political will.

Long-awaited metro in Almaty (Kazakhstan) was put into operation on December 1, 2011. Its some 8 kilometres run across the city center, which is quite impractical. It would have been better to connect Almaty's center with some of its suburbs. So, now our metro looks more like a toy than a remedy to transportation problems. By the way, this first (rather small) segment of the metro was also a protracted construction, which had taken some 22 years to complete.

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And Medellin? The second largest city in Colombia (a 3rd world country), which has around 3 million people, has an underground metro since 1995.

Buenos Aires was the first city in Latin America to get subway in 1910, but just in recent years have it taken a big decision to build up the subway system. It got worse, Federal Govt ran the subway and put a lor of money via subsidies but since 1st January City took over the subway and caused a tarrible debate about fares because of Federal Govt do not want to put money via subsidies any more so City Hall said that it is impossible to offer the same level of service without subidies... I think that Buenos Aires deserve to get a better public transport system but it depends on investing heavily in not only subway but also in roads, bus system and motorways. Regards

So, Peru beats Kazakhstan for four more years, although it got more kilometres of built lines.

Please correct: my understanding is that the official position of Lima Mayor is to pursue more BRT lines rather than metro type solutions

http://elcomercio.pe/politica/1354755/noticia-reforma-transporte-cifras-...

Villaran is very unpopular and may be removed in a referendum not for her political oponents: She has revealed as very unefficient and has the habit to make promises that she never execute.
At the begining of 2012 the fact of her suposed "honesty" has been destroyed by the fiasco of "La Herradura" beach (a popular beach in Lima that Villaran promised rebuilt).

The current mayor of Lima opposed the construction of Metro lines, prioritizing BRT busways as the main means of promoting mass transit.

no, we don't want to be a 'world class city' where the result is debt and over-capitalism be rampant. look at them with their gfc08 and gfc12 underway, in this 'world class cities'.
we are poor(peruvians) and we will get there, where people whom live within our means.
considerations should be about energy and environment. not calls from recalcitrant newspapers/magazines to remove elected people. this is not syria,libia,yemen,barhain where 'puppets' were removed.

Metro lines are very expensive. Madrid,Paris, London built their lines in 1900. Today it would be quite expensive. But it is true that Lima needs one urgently!!