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Macau Light Rapid Transit
🇨🇳 China ·built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries· mass transit system in Macau
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 055B-055A Macau Light Rapid Transit Taipa Line 11-12-2019: LN9267· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Macau Light Rapid Transit (MLRT in its short form, Chinese: 澳門輕軌系統; Portuguese: Metro Ligeiro de Macau, MLM) is a rubber-tired automated guideway transit system in Macau and the first railway system in the city. The first phase of the project's construction began in February 2012, and the first section of the Taipa line was opened to the public on 10 December 2019. The Barra extension of the Taipa line opened in 2023, with the Seac Pai Van and Hengqin lines subsequently opening in 2024.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- 11 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 105: 2 full city buses (~50 seats each).
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 55
- kind
- tram / light rail
- origin
- 🇨🇳 China
- builders
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- operators
- MTR Company (Macau), Macao Light Rapid Transit Corporation, Limited
- top speed
- —
- power
- 115 kW
- length
- 11 m
- capacity
- 105 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q866024, Wikipedia: Macau Light Rapid Transit (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.