In 2014 the Mexican Ministry of Communication and Transportation (SCT- Secretaría de Telecomunicaciones y Transportes) awarded Sener the Guadalajara metro’s new Line 3 project. Sener has developed the entire project, from the pre-feasibility study to the preliminary study and the construction for the line.

The Guadalajara metro’s new Line 3 will link the city centre to the south east of the city, servicing the Zapopan, Guadalajara and Tlaquepaque municipalities, in the Mexican state of Jalisco.

The new Line 3 will stretch across 21.45 km, with 17 km in viaducts and 5 km in tunnel, with 18 stations, 13 above ground and 5 underground.

The construction project of the line consists of three sections:

• the first 8.65 km northern section will run on an elevated viaduct and includes the  stations Periferico Zapopan, Belenes, Mercado del Mar, Basilica, Plaza Patria, Circunvalacion, Federalisimo (interchange Line 1). It has been awarded to the consortium composed by Mota Engil SA (Portugal), Sacyr (Spain), GDI-Grupo Promotor de Desarrollo e Infraestructura SA (Mexico) and Trena (Mexico);
• the 5.5 km line’s central underground section, from the La Normal to Avenida Revolucion, includes five underground stations (La Normal, Santuario, Catedral, Independencia and Plaza de la Bandera) and it will be driven by a TBM EPB. This section has been awarded to the consortium S.A.P.I de CV composed by Mota Engil SA (Portugal), Sacyr (Spain), GDI-Grupo Promotor de Desarrollo e Infraestructura SA (Mexico) and Ral SpA (Spain);
• the 7.45 km southern section has a elevated alignment and includes the stations Cucei, Plaza Revolucion, Rio Nilo, Tlaquepaque Centro, Nodo Revolucion and main bus stations. It has been awarded to Spanish construction company OHL;

In December 2014 Alstom, in association with CPVM (Mexico Constructora de Proyectos Viales), a company from OHL group, was awarded a contract by the Secretariat of Communications and Transport of Mexico to supply a full system (18 trains, the communication systems, the high-voltage and traction substations, the traffic control systems based in Urbalis 400 and Alstom’s CBTC-Communication Based Train Control system for Line 3 for Guadalajara metro.

In August 2015 Egis, in partnership with Transconsult, were awarded the works supervision for all systems (track, energy, signalling, telecommunications and rolling stock).

The metro line is scheduled to be in service mid-2018. Visit http://www.l3gdl.com/ and http://www.siteur.gob.mx/.