Salvador Metro


The Salvador Metro is a rapid transit system serving Salvador city, the state capital of Bahia and the fourth largest city in Brazil. The current system includes a fully open 33 KM and twenty, which began partial public service on June 11, 2014. The system arrives until the center of the city of Lauro de Freitas also. It is operated by .
Additionally, Salvador is served by a railway line known as the Suburban Line that does not connect with the Metro in the year of 2018. This suburban line will soon become a VLT line integrated to the 43 KM 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, and until the neighboring municipality of Lauro de Freitas through Line 1 and Line 2 respectively, totaling 41.8 kilometers 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 kilometers of extension and 10 stations and must be replaced by the SkyRail Bahia monorail line, with the :pt:Linha_Azul_|Blue Line and :pt:Linha_Vermelha_|Red Line, which are transverse feeder roads in deployment to be covered by a Bus Rapid Transit System, with conventional Soteropolitan municipal bus lines, of Laurofreitenses municipal buses and with the metropolitan ones.

Background

The project is a Build, Operate, and Transfer scheme for the operation of the urban rapid rail transportation 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.
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.
This project is an integral part of the strategy. The project aims to improve the quality of public urban transportation in the area by connecting currently excluded low-income neighborhoods, and by furthering the development of a fully d urban transportation system.
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.

Operations

Route

The current route of Line 1 begins at the underground Lapa station, and runs for in subway tunnels, before emerging to the surface. Brotas station is elevated, while Acesso Norte Station and Retiro stations are at-grade.
With Line 1 fully operational over its whole course from Lapa to Pirajá as of 2015, it is long, and serves eight stations.

Stations

The following lists the current, and planned, stations of the Salvador Metro, by their opening date:
StationLineOpening dateNotes
Lapa111 June 2014Access by Bus Terminal of Lapa, in operation
Campo da Pólvora111 June 2014Access by two sides of Dom Pedro II Square, in operation
Brotas111 June 2014Access by Av. Mario Leal Ferreira or by Rua das Pitangueiras, in operation
Bonocô113 November 2015In operation
Acesso Norte1 & 211 June 2014Access by walkway of Shopping Bela Vista and BR-324 Highway, in operation
Retiro125 August 2014Access by Baixa de Santo Antônio Street, in operation
Bom Juá123 April 2015in operation
Pirajá122 December 2015In operation
Detran25 December 2016In operation
Rodoviária25 December 2016New Downtown, in operation
Pernambués223 May 2017In operation
Imbuí223 May 2017In operation
CAB223 May 2017In operation
Pituaçu223 May 2017In operation
Flamboyant211 September 2017In operation
Tamburugy211 September 2017In operation
Bairro da Paz211 September 2017In operation
Mussurunga211 September 2017In operation
Aeroporto226 April 2018In operation
Campinas de Pirajá/Brasilgás1Planned
Águas Claras/Cajazeiras1Planned
Lauro de Freitas2Planned