# Seville Metro

The Seville Metro (Spanish: Metro de Sevilla) is an 18-kilometre (11 mi) light metro network serving the city of Seville, Spain and its metropolitan area. The system is totally independent of any other rail or street traffic. All stations are provided with platform screen doors.
Line 1 was inaugurated on 2 April 2009. Three more lines are planned to be built. Construction of Line 3 began in 2023 and is expected to be completed in 2030.
The Seville Metro fleet consists of 17 articulated low-floor Urbos 2 light rail vehicles (LRVs) manufactured by CAF. The Urbos 2 LRVs are 31 metres (101 ft 8+1⁄2 in) long, 2.65 metres (8 ft 8+3⁄8 in) wide, and 3.3 metres (10 ft 9+7⁄8 in) tall, with a total 6 doors on each side. The capacity of each LRV vehicle is of 192 passengers, of which 60 would be seated and 132 standing. The Urbos 2 LRVs have air conditioning. LRVs are powered by an overhead catenary at 750 V DC.
It was the sixth Metro system to be built in Spain, after those in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao and Palma de Mallorca. Currently, it is the fifth biggest Metro company in Spain by number of passengers carried – over 22.7 million passengers in 2024.

## History
### Original project

In 1968, the City Council of Seville already stated that surface transportation was insufficient to meet the mobility demands of citizens due to the growing development of private transport in the area. The Council proposed to build a metro system in the following decade. Seville was then the third Spanish city to plan the construction of a metro-system, after Madrid and Barcelona, which already had metro systems in operation for decades.
On 30 July 1969, the City Council approved a study that received support from the Ministry of Public Works. The Ministry then put out a tender for the drafting of the project, which was selected in September 1972. This first project proposed that the network length would be 27.2 km with 32 stations in three lines, covering only the city of Seville:
* Line 1: La Plata, Puerta Jerez, Plaza Nueva, Plaza del Duque, Alameda, Macarena, Pino Montano.
* Line 2: Santa Clara, Polígono San Pablo, Alhóndiga, Plaza del Duque, Marqués de Paradas, El Tardón, Rubén Darío.
* Line 3: Heliópolis, San Bernardo, Menéndez y Pelayo, Recaredo, Macarena, Cartuja.
Experimental construction began in mid-1974, with definitive construction beginning in April 1976. On 4 November 1981, the monument to San Fernando in Plaza Nueva sank, raising concerns to citizens. A few months later, on 28 March 1982, a 5 metres (16 ft) sinkhole appeared in Puerta Jerez station, and later that year, some cracks appeared in several buildings in the San Bernardo neighborhood.
Popular local newspapers such as the ABC de Sevilla campaigned against the construction of the metro, citing the system as a threat for historical buildings and monuments because of the "fragile characteristics of the Sevillian soil". Numerous posters against the construction of the Metro were seen throughout the city during these years.
These events sparked public alarm and encouraged popular opinion to oppose the progress of the metro project, leading to the suspension of the works in 1984 in the midst of a budget restructuring of the newly created Junta de Andalucía, which preferred to build other, more popular infrastructure projects in Andalusia.
By the time the works were suspended, more than 5 billion pesetas (€30 million in 1984, €115 million if inflation is adjusted to 2025) had already been invested. Only 3 stations of Line 1 had been built, with a total length of 3 kilometres (1.9 mi).

### Revised metro project

In 1999, fifteen years after the works were halted, PSOE and Partido Andalucista reached an agreement to reactivate construction, citing technological advances and considerable population growth as the reasons. A new study project was ordered by the Junta de Andalucía, planning a network covering Seville and its metropolitan area (over 1.5 million inhabitants) formed by four lines, all of them, completely independent of other traffic.
The Junta de Andalucía finally approved the project in 2003, with the aim of promoting railway systems in various areas of Andalusia. Along the Seville Metro, the Andalusian Government also planned the construction of Málaga Metro (opened 2014), Granada Metro (2017), Cádiz Bay tram-train (2022) and Jaén Tram (yet to be inaugurated).
Construction of Line 1 began in September 2003, starting with the rehabilitation of the flooded Nervion station, whose works were halted 25 years prior. The line was scheduled to be completed in 2006, but construction was still halfway done by then. In October 2007, Metrocentro tram system was inaugurated. The Junta de Andalucía temporarily transferred five Urbos 2 trams to TUSSAM (operator of city buses and MetroCentro) since the metro system was not still operating. A few months later, TUSSAM bought the trams, which were eventually brought back to their manufacturer, CAF, and sold once again to the Seville Metro in 2010.
The inauguration day was expected to be 21 December 2008. However, on 27 November, a water filtration at Puerta Jerez station delayed the inauguration by three and a half months. Line 1 finally began operation on 2 April 2009.

### Enlargement

After Line 1 was inaugurated in 2009, Seville Metro projects were halted due to the global financial crisis that severely struck Spain. Over the following years, projects for the construction of new lines were requested, but they were never completed.
In 2018, government officials came to an agreement to build line 3 of the metro system next, as this line would only cross the city of Seville, thus requiring less permissions. Line 3 officially began construction in February 2023, although just the northern half of it, since the southern half still does not have an approved project. Line 3 is expected to be inaugurated in 2030.
In October 2024, Seville Metro updated its logo and corporate image.

## System

Metro de Sevilla :
| Terminals | Length | Stations | Status |
| Ciudad Expo Olivar Quintos | 18 km | 22 | Operating since 2 April 2009 |
| Torreblanca Puerta Triana | 13.4 km | 18 | Study phase as of late 2024 |
| Pino Montano Bermejales | 11.5 km | 17 | In construction since February 2023 Expected to be completed by 2030 |
| Circular line | 17.7 km | 24 | Planned |

### Line 1

* Line 1, West-South
** Cities: Mairena del Aljarafe, San Juan de Aznalfarache, Seville, Dos Hermanas.
** Stations: 22
** Length: 18 km (11 mi)
** Construction: September 2003 - April 2009
** Licence holder: Grupo ACS, Grupo SyV, GEA 21, AOPJA, CAF
Line 1 of Seville Metro crosses the southern part of Seville metropolitan area, starting at Ciudad Expo station in Mairena del Aljarafe. The end of the line is Olivar de Quintos in Montequinto, a neighborhood of Dos Hermanas. The line crosses the busiest zones in Seville, including Puerta Jerez near Seville city center, San Bernardo, which is a transportation hub, and Nervión. The line also stops at Pablo de Olavide University, where it is expected to have a connection to the Alcalá de Guadaira tramway in 2026.
In 2019 the busiest stations on Line 1 were Puerta Jerez (2,139,000), San Bernardo (1,393,000) and Nervión (1,385,000).

## Fares

There are several payment methods that can be used in the metro facilities.
* An exclusive Seville Metro ticket: they can be bought at automated ticket machines in stations.
* A Seville Metro card
* A multimodal card of the Transport Consortium of any Metropolitan Area of Andalusia.
* Bank card using the Tap&Go system.
Seville Metro fees :
| Method | 0 zones | 1 zone | 2 zones |
| Single ticket | 1,35 € | 1,60 € | 1,80 € |
| Round trip ticket | 2,70 € | 3,20 € | 3,60 € |
| 1-day ticket Unlimited trips in a single day | 4,50 € | 4,50 € | 4,50 € |
| Bonoplus45 45 trips in 30 days, sole proprietorship | 0,66 € (30€) 0,26€ (12€)* | 0,94 € (42€) 0,37€ (17€)* | 1,10 € (50€) 0,44€ (20€)* |
| Bonometro (Seville Metro card) | 0,82 € 0,33 €* | 1,17 € 0,47 €* | 1,37 € 0,55 €* |
| Transport Consortium Card** | 0,82 € 0,33 €* | 1,17 € 0,47 €* | 1,37 € 0,55 €* |
| *Provisional prices from January 2025 to June 2025. **This payment option allows the user to transfer between different means of transport in the metropolitan area, discounting 20% of the total amount of the means used within a period of 2 hours. ||||