- Fare and where to buy tickets
- Metro lines
- Working hours
- History
- Peculiarities
Opened relatively recently (in the 21st century), the Seville metro is currently being built and developed. There are detailed construction plans, according to which this transport network will soon become almost four times longer and cover a huge area. So far, with its help, you can only get to some areas of the city, but today this transport system is comfortable, safe and modern.
All stations are equipped with elevators and escalators, platforms are separated from the tracks by special partitions - in a word, all modern devices and devices are used, created for the convenience of passengers (including those whose capabilities are limited). The daily passenger traffic is still relatively small - thirty-nine and a half thousand people. In the near future, when new lines are opened in the metro of the capital of Andalusia, it will undoubtedly increase several times.
Fare and where to buy tickets
The cost of the ticket depends on how many transport zones you are going to visit. The metro of the capital of Andalusia covers three zones. If you are planning a trip within only one of them, the ticket will cost a little less than one and a half euros. A ticket for two zones will cost you one euro and sixty euro cents. A ticket for three zones is twenty euro cents more expensive.
Several types of travel documents can be used on the Seville Metro:
- single ticket;
- one day ticket;
- reusable ticket;
- ticket for all city transport.
A single ticket entitles you to one trip. Before starting the trip, it must be punched. The maximum travel time is one and a half hours. You can purchase such a travel document for several people at once (if you are traveling with family or friends), all of them can go on the metro with one ticket. You don't have to look for a place where such tickets are sold for a long time: they can be purchased from vending machines, which, like in many metros in the world, are installed at the station entrances.
A one-day ticket entitles you to an unlimited number of metro rides per calendar day. Such a ticket can only be purchased for one person. Its cost is four and a half euros.
For one euro, you can buy a reusable ticket or, more precisely, a rechargeable card. One trip on such a travel document will cost less than on a regular ticket. You can charge this card for the number of trips you need. It is important not to forget to compost it before each of them. The card can be used for several people at once (if, for example, you are riding the subway with a group of friends), but there should be less than thirty of them. Travel time should not exceed an hour and a half. The card can be charged for a minimum of ten euros and a maximum of fifty euros. It should be noted that the cost of a trip with such a card will also depend on how many transport zones you are going to pass. A trip within one zone will cost eighty-two euro cents, for a ticket for two zones you will pay a little more than one euro, and if you decide to travel through three zones, you will need to spend one euro and thirty-seven euro cents.
The cost of travel will be exactly the same for you if you purchase a card for all types of transport. It makes it possible to use all types of public transport, including the subway. If you are traveling with a large group of friends or with your family members, you can validate the card for everyone who is traveling with you,but there must be less than fifty of them; another important point: you need to have time to validate a ticket for the whole company in four minutes. The maximum duration of travel with this travel document is one and a half hours. The minimum amount you can charge the card with is ten euros, the maximum is fifty euros. You can buy this travel document, like any other, at the appropriate machine. There will be no problems with payment: it accepts coins, bills, and bank cards.
Metro lines
Currently, only one branch is open, its length is about eighteen and a half kilometers. It has twenty-two stations. You can drive the line from start to finish in thirty-eight minutes. On the metro map, the line is marked in green.
In the near future, it is planned to build three more branches. The length of the second line will be twelve and a half kilometers, and seventeen stations will open on it. On maps, the line will be blue. The third line will also house seventeen stations, but its length will be one and a half kilometers less. This line will be yellow on maps. The fourth line will be marked in red, nineteen stations will open on it, and its length will be fifteen kilometers.
The length of the platform of the already built branch is sixty-five meters, and the platforms of the lines that have not yet been opened will be the same. The gauge on the Seville metro is standard European.
The annual passenger traffic in the metro of the Andalusian capital is approximately fourteen and a half million people.
Working hours
Metro hours depend on the day of the week. From Monday to Thursday, it opens at six thirty in the morning and works until eleven in the morning. On Friday, its doors are open to passengers until two o'clock in the morning, according to the same schedule, it works on all pre-holiday days. On Saturday, the metro opens at seven thirty in the morning, the movement of trains stops at two in the morning. On holidays, the metro also receives its first passengers at half past seven. It closes on such days at eleven o'clock in the morning. Some holidays are an exception (for example, Christmas and Easter) - the metro runs longer on these days.
During peak hours, the time interval separating trains is four to seven minutes. In the early morning, as well as after nine o'clock in the evening, this interval increases significantly and ranges from twelve to sixteen minutes.
History
The project for the construction of the Seville metro appeared in the late 90s of the XX century. It was developed by a corporation founded by one of the former governors of the city. The first line was opened almost ten years after the appearance of this project.
As mentioned above, it is planned to build three more branches. The transport network will have to cover not only the city, but also its environs (this entire territory is home to about one and a half million people).
Peculiarities
The design of the Seville metro stations is very laconic: the builders put functionality at the forefront. However, the design of the stations in general can be called modern and pleasing to the eye, there is a lot of glass, plastic and sparkling metal. But ceilings are often a simple polished concrete surface, without any finishing.
The platforms are separated from the tracks by a special fence. It contains sliding doors that open automatically, but there are also special handles on them, with which you can open the doors manually in case of an emergency.
As in many metros in the world, at each station there are electronic boards informing the time of arrival of the next train; Since the time intervals between trains on the Seville metro are sometimes quite long, these boards are very important here. Also, a special stand is installed at each station. It contains information about the working hours of the subway, tariffs, rules for using the transport system. You can also study the metro map there.
Panoramic glass is installed in the first car of each train, through which the driver's cab is perfectly visible.
Official website: www.metro-sevilla.es
Seville Metro
Updated: 2020-01-03
