Metro Rio de Janeiro

Metro Rio

Route length:

41 km

		Pavuna transition to SuperVia
		Engenheiro Rubens Paíva
		Acari / Fazenda Botafogo
		Coelho Neto
		Colégio
		Irajá
		Vincente de Carvalho TransCarioca
		Thomaz Coelho
		Engenho da Rainha
		Inhaúma
		Nova América / Del Castilho ExpressBus
		Maria da Graça
		Triagem SuperVia
		Maracanã SuperVia
		Sao Cristóvão SuperVia
		Uruguai
		Saens Peña
		Sao Francisco Xavier
		Afonso Pena
		Estácio	( )
		Cidade Nova
		Praça Onze

		Central SuperVia
		Presidente Vargas
		Uruguiana
		Carioca
		Cinelândia
		Glória
		Catete
		Largo do Machado express bus
		Flamengo
		Botafogo transition to the Metrô na Superfície
		and express bus
		Cardeal Arcoverde
		Siqueira Campos
		Cantangalo
		General Osório Metrô na Superfície, express bus
		Nossa Senhora da Paz
		Jardim de Alah
		Leblon
		Sao Conrado
		Gávea-PUC express bus
		Jardim Oceânico

The Metrô Rio de Janeiro is the subway system of the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro . The first line opened in 1979. There are currently three lines with a length of 57 kilometers and 41 stations. Lines 1 and 2 use the same route between Central and Botafogo stations . Another three lines are planned. The operating company of the metro is Opportrans – Concessão Metroviária SA

Lines and operations

Surname	route	opening
line 1	General Osório ↔ Uruguai	March 15, 1979
Line 2	Botafogo ↔ Pavuna	19th November 1981
Line 4	Jardim Oceânico ↔ General Osório	August 1, 2016

The Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the Governor of Rio de Janeiros, Sérgio Cabral, at the Cantagalo train station

Map showing the forecast of the Rio de Janeiro metro network in 1990

Line 1 runs in a horseshoe shape from Ipanema in the south to Tijuca in the west and has 20 stations. The 16.1 km long route runs exclusively in the tunnel and crosses the business center and the tourist areas of the city. At Central station there is a transition to the S-Bahn- like suburban train SuperVia . Construction began on May 23, 1970. On March 5, 1979, the Metrô was able to commence operations on a five-kilometer stretch between the Glória and Praça Onze stations on the edge of the business district . In September 1981 the Glória - Botafogo section was inaugurated. In May 1982, operations started on the section to Tijuca ( Saens Peña station ). The Botafogo - Cardeal Arcoverde ( Copacabana ) section began operations in July 1998. The first trains ran on the route to Siqueira Campos in December 2002. The line has now been extended to Ipanema.

Line 2 runs from Botafogo station in a north-westerly direction to Pavuna . The route, built according to the metro standard, runs partly in a tunnel, partly on the surface and as an elevated railway and has 26 stations. On November 19, 1981, the first three kilometers with the train stations Estácio, São Cristóvão and Maracanã were handed over. In March 1983 the company opened on a 12.5 km stretch from Maracanã to Irajá. In August 1998 the line to Pavuna was inaugurated. Later the section between São Cristóvão and Central was added and the line extended to Botafogo. Since then, the route to Estácio has only been used on weekends.

Line 4 starts in the Barra da Tijuca district with the Jardim Oceânico stop and takes five further stations east to Ipanema . There it joins line 1 at the General Osório stop .

Women's compartment

Trains run from Monday to Saturday from 5 a.m. to midnight and on Sundays from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Trains run every four to seven minutes on line 1 and every five to ten minutes on line 2. Individual cars are reserved for female passengers on both lines during rush hour .

Tariff

The Metrô has its own tariff system. Offered single and multiple tickets, on reusable plastic smart cards are stored. The single tickets must be returned after use. Combination tickets are offered that include the transition to other means of transport, such as the Metrô na Superfície.

Metrô na Superfície

The Metrô network is supplemented by two integrated bus lines that connect the southern terminus of the two Metrô lines with Gávea on the west side of the lagoon .

Expansion and planning

Line 3 (planned): The privately financed route is to lead from the Carioca train station on Line 1 with an underwater tunnel under the Guanabara Bay to Niterói and São Gonçalo.

Line 5 (planned): This line will connect the airports of Antônio Carlos Jobim on the Ilha do Governador and Santos Dumont .

Line 6 (planned): The 22-kilometer route will connect the international airport with Barra de Tijuca. This opens up the northern and eastern parts of the city (Leopoldina, Baixada). This route is currently served by the TransCarioca bus rapid transit line .