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 city, the state capital of Bahia and the fourth largest city in Brazil. The current system is 34 km (21 mi) long and has twenty stations, which began partial public service on June 11, 2014.[2] The system arrives until the center of the city of Lauro de Freitas also. It is operated by CCR METRÔ BAHIA Company.
Additionally, Salvador is 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 does not connect with the Metro. This suburban line will soon become a VLT line integrated to the 43 km (27 mi) of the subway of Salvador.
The construction of the SMSL is carried out in an expansion divided in six stages that will integrate the traditional center of the city until Pirajá (later, until the district of Águas Claras, near Cajazeiras), and until the neighboring municipality of Lauro de Freitas through Line 1 and Line 2 respectively, totaling 41.8 kilometers (17.6 of Line 1 and 24.2 of Line 2) and 22 stations.
As part of the efforts to implement integrated transportation in Greater Salvador, the subway assumes the role of structural trunk system, while the others must be complementary and feeder. Therefore, according to the requirement of integration put in the edict of the subway bidding of 2013, the subway is planned to coordinate with other related modalities: the Suburb Train, which currently operates with 13.5 kilometres (8.4 mi) of extension and 10 stations and must be replaced by the SkyRail Bahiamonorail line, with the Blue Line and Red Line, which are transverse feeder roads in deployment to be covered by a Bus Rapid Transit System (BRT), with conventional Soteropolitan municipal bus lines, of Laurofreitenses municipal buses and with the metropolitan ones.
Background
Construction of Bonocô Station Elevation.
The project is a Build, Operate, and Transfer (BOT) scheme for the operation of the urbanrapid railtransportation system in the municipality of Salvador da Bahia, and includes the supply and installation of rolling stock and signaling equipment, and commercial operation of the system for the 25-year concession. Each train, consisting of four cars, has the capacity to carry 1,250 passengers.[3]
Currently, the urban transportation system in Salvador is underdeveloped and largely road-based, causing significant congestion and delays. This level of road-based transport has significant impacts on the local economy and environment. For this reason the municipality and the state, together with the World Bank, have been involved since 1992 in the design and implementation of a transportation strategy. The international standard gauge is 3 kV overhead power supply. And Built by a consortium of Siemens and Camargo Corrêa and Andrade Gutierrez of Brazil.[4]
Train of Salvador metro.
This project is an integral part of the strategy that aims to improve the quality of public urbantransportation in the area by connecting currently excluded low-income neighborhoods, and by furthering the development of a fully integrated urban transportation system.[5]
Salvador Metro system is one of the systems of urban mobility that were deployed for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The connection of Line 2 with Line 1 of Salvador Metro contributes to connect the International Airport to Downtown Salvador and the Fonte Nova Stadium. The new Line 2 of Salvador Metro integrates the metro stations of the Rótula do Abacaxi and the beach city of Lauro de Freitas in the metropolitan area, passing through the Salvador International Airport, with the Airport metro station.[6]
Operations
Route
Map of current and future lines.
The current route of Line 1 begins at the underground Lapa station, and runs for 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) in subway tunnels, before emerging to the surface. Brotas station (which serves the Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova stadium) is elevated, while Accesso Norte Station and Retiro stations are at-grade.
With Line 1 fully operational over its whole course from Lapa to Campinas as of July 2023[update], it is 13.4-kilometre (8.3 mi) long[7] (with 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) underground, 5.8 kilometres (3.6 mi) elevated, with the rest at grade[citation needed]), and serves nine stations.[8]
Stations
Lapa Station, in the downtown of city.
The following lists the current, and planned, stations of the Salvador Metro, by their opening date:[9]
Station
Line
Opening date
Notes
Lapa
1
11 June 2014
Access by Bus Terminal of Lapa ("Terminal Rodoviário da Lapa"), in operation
Campo da Pólvora
1
11 June 2014
Access by two sides of Dom Pedro II Square ("Praça Dom Pedro II"), in operation
Brotas
1
11 June 2014
Access by Av. Mario Leal Ferreira or by Rua das Pitangueiras, in operation
^"Metrô deve chegar a Salvador antes da Copa" [Metro is expected to come to Salvador before the World Cup]. portal2014.org.br (in Portuguese). November 15, 2011. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved June 20, 2014.
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