Salvador Metro

Salvador Metro
A train 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	3,000 V overhead 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

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 Bahia monorail 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.