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Salvador Metro
Atrain on the Salvador Metro.
Overview
Native name	Metrô de Salvador, Metrô Bahia
Locale	Salvador,Bahia,Brazil
Transit type	Rapid transit
Number of lines	2 [1]
Line number	2
Number of stations	20
Website	CCR Metrô Bahia(in Portuguese)
Operation
Began operation	2014
Number of vehicles	45
Technical
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)standard gauge
Electrification	3,000Voverhead lines
System map Legend Lapa Campo da Pólvora Brotas ( Arena Fonte Nova ) Bonocô Acesso Norte Retiro Bom Juá Pirajá Campinas Águas Claras Detran Rodoviária Pernambués Imbuí CAB Pituaçu Flamboyant Tamburugy Bairro da Paz Mussurunga Aeroporto Lauro de Freitas This diagram: view talk edit

TheSalvador Metro (Brazilian Portuguese:Metrô de Salvador, commonly calledMetrô or Sistema Metropolitano Salvador-Lauro de Freitas) is arapid transit system servingSalvador city, the state capital ofBahia and the fourth largest city inBrazil. 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 aVLT 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 theSkyRail Bahiamonorail line, with theBlue Line andRed Line, which are transverse feeder roads in deployment to be covered by aBus Rapid Transit System (BRT), with conventional Soteropolitan municipal bus lines, of Laurofreitenses municipal buses and with the metropolitan ones.

The project is a Build, Operate, and Transfer (BOT) scheme for the operation of theurbanrapid 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-yearconcession. Eachtrain, consisting of four cars, has the capacity to carry 1,250passengers.^[3]

Currently, the urban transportation system in Salvador is underdeveloped and largelyroad-based, causing significantcongestion 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 theWorld Bank, have been involved since 1992 in thedesign andimplementation of a transportation strategy. The international standard gauge is 3 kV overhead power supply. And Built by aconsortium ofSiemens andCamargo Corrêa andAndrade Gutierrez of Brazil.^[4]

This project is an integral part of the strategy that aims to improve the quality of publicurbantransportation in the area by connecting currently excluded low-income neighborhoods, and by furthering the development of a fullyintegrated urban transportation system.^[5]

Salvador Metro system is one of the systems ofurban mobility that were deployed for the2014 FIFA World Cup. The connection of Line 2 with Line 1 of Salvador Metro contributes to connect the International Airport to Downtown Salvador and theFonte Nova Stadium. The new Line 2 of Salvador Metro integrates the metro stations of the Rótula do Abacaxi and the beach city ofLauro de Freitas in the metropolitan area, passing through theSalvador International Airport, with the Airportmetro station.^[6]

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 theItaipava 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]

The following lists the current, and planned, stations of the Salvador Metro, by their opening date:^[9]

• List of metro systems
• Rapid transit in Brazil

Media related toSalvador Metro at Wikimedia Commons

• CCR Metrô Bahia – official website(in Portuguese)
• Transalvador(in Portuguese)
• Salvador atUrbanRail.net

• Transport in Salvador, Bahia
• Rapid transit in Brazil
• Electric railways in Brazil
• Underground rapid transit in Brazil
• 3000 V DC railway electrification

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