Line 15 (São Paulo Metro)

São Paulo Metro Line 15 (Silver)
São Paulo Metro logo
Overview
Type Monorail
System São Paulo Metro
Status Partially in operation,
Partially under construction
Locale São Paulo, Brazil
Termini Ipiranga Station
Hospital Cidade Tiradentes Station
Stations 2 (operational)
18 (planned)
Operation
Opened 30 August 2014 (between Vila Prudente Station and Oratorio Station)
Operator(s) Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo
Technical
Line length 2.9 km (1.8 mi) (operational)
27 km (17 mi) (planned)
Line 15 São Paulo Metro monorail

Line 15 (Silver) is a line of the São Paulo Metro. The launch customer for the Bombardier Innovia Monorail 300, the line is South America's first mass-transit monorail, and when completed it will be the largest and highest capacity monorail system in the Americas.[1] The first section, from Vila Prudente Station to Oratório Station, opened on 30 August 2014, initially running 10 AM–3 PM on weekends only.[2] As of 10 August 2015 the line is operation from 7 AM–7 PM.[3]

When complete, this new line will be approximately 27 kilometres (17 mi) long and have eighteen stations, beginning at the Ipiranga Station and ending at the future Hospital Cidade Tiradentes Station.

The line will have transfers to Line 2 (Green) as well as CPTM Line 10 (Turquoise).[4]

History

Test run on Line 15.

Stations

Code Station Platforms Position Connections District
VPM Vila Prudente Island platforms Elevated Line 2 (Green) and Urban Bus Terminal Vila Prudente
ORA Oratório Island platforms Elevated - Água Rasa

See also


Wikimedia Commons has media related to Line 15-Prata (São Paulo Metro).

References

  1. ↑ "Sao Paulo, Brazil". monorails.org.
  2. ↑ "Primeiro monotrilho do país será inaugurado hoje em São Paulo". uol.com.br (in Portuguese).
  3. ↑ "Monotrilho da Linha 15-Prata está cinco anos atrasado e R$ 4,8 bi acima do previsto". Rede Brasil Atual (in Portuguese).
  4. ↑ Information about SP Metro expansion projects on the SP government website (in Portuguese).
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 5/28/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.