The metro line would cover a route between Florida colony and Los Heroes Boulevard.

Prensalibbre.com reports, “Vice President Rafael Espada, who a year ago had curiosity to know if it was possible to have a metro in Guatemala, said that while it is a long term project, it is possible for the contract to be drawn up in 2011."

Source: prensalibre.com

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Another Attempt to Build a Metro

November 2018

In Guatemala, it is proposed to develop an underground metro that would connect in its initial phase the municipality of Mixco with Zone 15 of the capital and would require a $700 million investment.

The new project proposed is in addition to the several proposals and attempts that have been made to implement a mass transportation system in the metropolitan area of Guatemala, which resolves at once the serious problem of road congestion affecting the capital. Thus, in addition to the Metro Riel project and the urban cable cars between Mixco, Villa Nueva and the capital, a new initiative has now been added to build an underground train.

Guatemala Studies Metro Feasibility

March 2010

$870.000, donated by the French government, will be spent in a feasibility study for building an underground metro in the capital city.

Héctor Cifuentes, municipal secretary, explained they will assist the French team with physical space, offices in the municipality and transportation around the city.

Guatemala Considering a Metro

August 2009

Experts from France and the Dominican Republic will conduct a feasibility study for developing a metro system in the metropolitan area.

Engineers and geologists from both countries will arrive to Guatemala in September, and will evaluate the possibility of building a metro or a surface train.

Guatemala to get a metro system by 2012

July 2008

Guatemala's vice president, Rafael Espada, says one of the main transport reorganization projects in Guatemala City will be to construct a metro system in the capital.

He said that the project is part of an overall plan, but added that he hopes it can be carried out before the administration of President Álvaro Colom ends in 2012.