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Salvador Metro
12°58′59″S 38°29′34″W / 12.98306°S 38.49278°W
The Salvador Metro (Brazilian Portuguese: Metrô de Salvador, commonly called Metrô or Sistema Metropolitano Salvador-Lauro de Freitas) is a rapid transit system serving Salvador, the state capital of Bahia and the fifth largest city in Brazil. The current system is 38 kilometres (24 mi) long and has 22 stations, which began partial public service on June 11, 2014. The system also has a station at the Salvador Bahia Airport in Lauro de Freitas. The system is operated by CCR Metrô Bahia.
Additionally, Salvador was served by a 14-kilometre (8.7 mi) 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge railway line known as the Suburban Line (Calçada-Paripe) that did not connect with the Metro. This suburban line will soon become an LRT line integrated to the 38 kilometres (24 mi) of the Metro.
The construction of the SMSL was carried out in an expansion divided in six stages that integrated the traditional center of the city to Pirajá (and later, in 2023, Campinas and the district of Águas Claras) and to the neighboring municipality of Lauro de Freitas through Line 1 and Line 2 respectively, totaling 38 kilometres (24 mi) and 22 stations.
The Metro connects to other transport systems such as the Salvador BRT, which is a bus rapid transit system which shares the Lapa station with the Metro, and the 36.4-kilometre (22.6 mi) and 34 station LRT line, which is currently being built to replace the suburban train, extend it, and predicted to be concluded by August 12, 2028, and will encounter the Metro at Águas Claras and Bairro da Paz stations.
The result of the political fighting and contract conflicts caused the project to suffer multiple delays from its original completion date of 2003. In final form, the Bahia state government has taken over responsibility for finishing the line in 2013. When the service starts, it operated on the 7.6-kilometre (4.7 mi), five stop Lapa–Retiro portion of Line 1 between 12.00 and 16.00. Trains operated every ten minutes, and passenger travel were free. On game days, however, only football fans with game tickets were allowed in.
Nearly a decade have gone by after that first opening, and in Bahia's capital, circumstances have undergone a major shift.
On June 14 of this year, the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) Pirajá–Campinas section of Line 1 has opened, bringing the line's total length to 13.4 kilometres (8.3 mi), including 5.8 kilometres (3.6 mi) of elevated track and 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) of tunnel, with nine stations.
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12°58′59″S 38°29′34″W / 12.98306°S 38.49278°W
The Salvador Metro (Brazilian Portuguese: Metrô de Salvador, commonly called Metrô or Sistema Metropolitano Salvador-Lauro de Freitas) is a rapid transit system serving Salvador, the state capital of Bahia and the fifth largest city in Brazil. The current system is 38 kilometres (24 mi) long and has 22 stations, which began partial public service on June 11, 2014. The system also has a station at the Salvador Bahia Airport in Lauro de Freitas. The system is operated by CCR Metrô Bahia.
Additionally, Salvador was served by a 14-kilometre (8.7 mi) 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge railway line known as the Suburban Line (Calçada-Paripe) that did not connect with the Metro. This suburban line will soon become an LRT line integrated to the 38 kilometres (24 mi) of the Metro.
The construction of the SMSL was carried out in an expansion divided in six stages that integrated the traditional center of the city to Pirajá (and later, in 2023, Campinas and the district of Águas Claras) and to the neighboring municipality of Lauro de Freitas through Line 1 and Line 2 respectively, totaling 38 kilometres (24 mi) and 22 stations.
The Metro connects to other transport systems such as the Salvador BRT, which is a bus rapid transit system which shares the Lapa station with the Metro, and the 36.4-kilometre (22.6 mi) and 34 station LRT line, which is currently being built to replace the suburban train, extend it, and predicted to be concluded by August 12, 2028, and will encounter the Metro at Águas Claras and Bairro da Paz stations.
The result of the political fighting and contract conflicts caused the project to suffer multiple delays from its original completion date of 2003. In final form, the Bahia state government has taken over responsibility for finishing the line in 2013. When the service starts, it operated on the 7.6-kilometre (4.7 mi), five stop Lapa–Retiro portion of Line 1 between 12.00 and 16.00. Trains operated every ten minutes, and passenger travel were free. On game days, however, only football fans with game tickets were allowed in.
Nearly a decade have gone by after that first opening, and in Bahia's capital, circumstances have undergone a major shift.
On June 14 of this year, the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) Pirajá–Campinas section of Line 1 has opened, bringing the line's total length to 13.4 kilometres (8.3 mi), including 5.8 kilometres (3.6 mi) of elevated track and 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) of tunnel, with nine stations.
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