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Traffic on Consolação Avenue in São Paulo. Congestion on Prestes Maia Avenue in São Paulo.. Transport in São Paulo plays a key role in the daily lives of the people of São Paulo and offers various methods of public transport that are offered in the city, including a complex bus system run by SPTrans, and various subway and railway lines.
The São Paulo Metro (Portuguese: Metrô de São Paulo, [meˈtɾo dʒi sɐ̃w ˈpawlu]), commonly called the Metrô, is a rapid transit system that forms part of the urban railways that serves the city of São Paulo, alongside the São Paulo Metropolitan Trains Company (CPTM), both forming the largest metropolitan rail transport network of Latin America. [3]
Brazil even invested 1.5% of the country's budget in infrastructure in the 1970s, being the time when the most investment was made in highways; but in the 1990s, only 0.1% of the budget was invested in this sector, maintaining an average of 0.5% in the 2000s and 2010, insufficient amounts for the construction of an adequate road network.
The current model of municipal public transport in São Paulo divides the city into nine different areas, and for eight of them (1 - Northwest, 2 - North, 3 - Northeast, 4 - East, 5 - Southeast, 6 - South, 7 - Southwest and 8 - West) lots were established for the distribution of companies and cooperatives that will provide transport services by ...
Overall, Brazil has the largest number of metros, with 12 such systems, followed by Venezuela with 4 metro systems. The Mexico City Metro has the highest passenger ridership from a single operator in Latin America, and second in the Americas, after the New York City Subway. São Paulo is the city with the largest number of passengers carried by ...
The São Paulo Metropolitan Train is a public transit rail system implanted in Greater São Paulo, serving 23 of its 39 municipalities.It has 273 km (170 mi) of length, 7 lines and 94 stations, transporting approximately 3 million passengers per day.
Brazil today has only a few heritage railways and two long-distance trains operated by Vale on narrow gauge that are more of a tourist attraction because of the scenic journey than a transportation system, especially because of the slow operating speed (60 km/h maximum), making Brazil's land public transportation infrastructure one of the worst ...
City System Start of operations System length Lines Stations Gauge Operator Belo Horizonte: Belo Horizonte Metro: 1986 [1] 28.1 km (17.5 mi) 1 19 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) Metrô BH Brasília: Federal District Metro: 2001 [2] 42.4 km (26.3 mi) 2 27 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) Companhia do Metropolitano do Distrito Federal (Metrô-DF) Porto Alegre