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Rapid Transit In Brazil
There are currently nine metro systems in Brazil, located in the cities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Recife, Fortaleza, Salvador, Bahia, Salvador, and Teresina. Currently, in addition to metro systems, Brazil also has seven Light rail, light rail transit systems, such as the Sobral Light Rail, Maceió Urban Rail, Maceió Urban Train System, Cariri Metro, Cariri Light Rail, Baixada Santista Light Rail, Rio de Janeiro Light Rail, VLT Carioca, Sistema de Trens Urbanos de João Pessoa, João Pessoa Urban Train System, and Sistema de Trens Urbanos de Natal, Natal Urban Train System. List of metro and monorail systems in Brazil Operational Proposed Discontinued List of Light Rail Systems in Brazil Operational Discontinued Suburban Rail Operational Discontinued References Rapid transit in Brazil, {{notelist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population, seventh-largest by population, with over 212 million people. The country is a federation composed of 26 Federative units of Brazil, states and a Federal District (Brazil), Federal District, which hosts the capital, Brasília. List of cities in Brazil by population, Its most populous city is São Paulo, followed by Rio de Janeiro. Brazil has the most Portuguese-speaking countries, Portuguese speakers in the world and is the only country in the Americas where Portuguese language, Portuguese is an Portuguese-speaking world, official language. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazil, coastline of . Covering roughly half of South America's land area, it Borders of Brazil, borders all other countries and ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belo Horizonte Metro
Belo Horizonte Metro () is a rapid transit system serving the city of Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The system has one line which serves 19 stations. The Metro carried 54.4 million passengers in 2019, or approximately 150,000 passengers per day. The system is operated by Metrô BH company, which is part of the Comporte Group. Two more lines are planned. History Resume The first section of the metro opened on 1 August 1986. At its opening, the Metro was long and had six stations with three trains in operation. In 1987 the line was extended to Central station and two more trains were brought into use. The line was extended again several times in the mid-1990s, and finally once more in 2002 adding the last 5 of the current 19 stations. Further trains were delivered in the 1990s, with the last being delivered in December 2001, bringing the total number of trains to 25. In 2002 that the current 19 stations of the system were completed and it was only i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The Metropolitan of Fortaleza, also known popularly as Metro of Fortaleza or Metrofor, is a system of metropolitan transport that operates in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza, operated by Companhia Cearense de Transportes Metropolitanos, company of social capital, captained by the Government of the State of Ceará, in Brazil, and has Eduardo Hotz as current president. Founded on May 2, 1997, the company is responsible for administration, construction and metro planning in the state of Ceará, being present in the systems of Sobral and Cariri, having its main activity in Fortaleza and its metropolitan region. According to data released in December 2016, the system is the sixth largest in Brazil among the 12 Brazilian metropolitan regions that have passenger rail transport, having in the period , behind São Paulo (), Rio de Janeiro (), Recife (), Natal (), and Porto Alegre (). The FMR lines represent 4.3% of the total network of subways and trains of Brazil that, in 2015, was of of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortaleza Metro
The Metropolitan of Fortaleza, also known popularly as Metro of Fortaleza or Metrofor, is a system of metropolitan transport that operates in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza, operated by Companhia Cearense de Transportes Metropolitanos, company of social capital, captained by the Government of the State of Ceará, in Brazil, and has Eduardo Hotz as current president. Founded on May 2, 1997, the company is responsible for administration, construction and metro planning in the state of Ceará, being present in the systems of Sobral and Cariri, having its main activity in Fortaleza and its metropolitan region. According to data released in December 2016, the system is the sixth largest in Brazil among the 12 Brazilian metropolitan regions that have passenger rail transport, having in the period , behind São Paulo (), Rio de Janeiro (), Recife (), Natal (), and Porto Alegre (). The FMR lines represent 4.3% of the total network of subways and trains of Brazil that, in 2015, was of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CCR Metrô Bahia
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Salvador Metro
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 fifth largest city in Brazil. The current system is 38 km (23.6 mi) long and has twenty two stations, which began partial public service on June 11, 2014. The system also has a station at the Salvador Bahia Airport in Lauro de Freitas. It is operated by CCR METRÔ BAHIA Company. Additionally, Salvador was served by a railway line known as the Suburban Line (Calçada-Paripe) that does not connect with the Metro. This suburban line will soon become an LRT line integrated to the 38 km (23.6 mi) of the Metro of Salvador. The construction of the SMSL was carried out in an expansion divided in six stages that integrated the traditional center of the city to Pirajá (and later, in 2023, Campinas and the district of Águas Claras) and to the neighboring mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logo MetroRio(2018)
A logo (abbreviation of logotype; ) is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition. It may be of an abstract or figurative design or include the text of the name that it represents, as in a wordmark. In the days of hot metal typesetting, a logotype was one word cast as a single piece of type (e.g. "The" in ATF Garamond), as opposed to a ligature, which is two or more letters joined, but not forming a word. By extension, the term was also used for a uniquely set and arranged typeface or colophon. At the level of mass communication and in common usage, a company's logo is today often synonymous with its trademark or brand.Wheeler, Alina. ''Designing Brand Identity'' © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (page 4) Etymology Douglas Harper's ''Online Etymology Dictionary'' states that the first surviving written record of the term 'logo' dates back to 1937, and that the term was "probably a shortening of logogram". History Numerous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio De Janeiro Metro
The Rio de Janeiro Metro (, ), commonly referred to as just the ''Metrô'' () is a rapid transit network that serves the city of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Metrô was inaugurated on 5 March 1979, and consisted of five stations operating on a single line. The system currently covers a total of , serving 41 stations, divided into three lines: Line 1 (); Line 2 (), which together travel over a shared stretch of line that covers 10 stations of an approximate distance of ; and Line 4 (). Metrô Rio has the second highest passenger volume of the metro systems in Brazil, after the São Paulo Metro. Line 1 (Rio de Janeiro), Line 1 (orange line) serves Centro, Rio de Janeiro, downtown Rio, tourist areas in the South Zone (Rio de Janeiro), South Zone, and several neighbourhoods in the Rio de Janeiro#North Zone, North Zone. It is a semicircular line, and is fully underground. It runs from Uruguai Station to Ipanema/General Osório Station. Line 2 (Rio de Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) is a nonprofit organization of African American trade union members affiliated with the AFL–CIO. More than 50 different international and national trade unions are represented in CBTU and there are 50 chapters in the United States and one in Ontario, Canada. History CBTU was started in September 1972 when more than 1,200 black union officials and rank and file members from 37 national unions met on September 23–24 at the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, to discuss the role of black trade unionists in the labor movement. At the time, it was the largest single gathering of black unionists in the history of the American labor movement. Five black labor leaders (William Lucy, Nelson Edwards, William Simons, Charles Hayes and Cleveland Robinson) called the new organization the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists. They believed AFL–CIO President George Meany had been ignoring the voice of black trade unionists. They also believe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recife Metro
The Recife Metro ( Portuguese: ''Metrô do Recife'', Metrorec) is a rapid transit system serving the Metropolitan Region of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. It is operated by the federally-owned ''Companhia Brasileira de Trens Urbanos (CBTU)'' and currently serves 29 stations, along of track. The system is complemented by two diesel-powered light rail lines with seven additional stations. In 2018, the combined system carried 102,089,000 passengers. Characteristics The contemporary metro, entirely aboveground, began construction in 1983, with funding from the World Bank. The metro consists of the Center Line (with two branches, Center-1 and Center-2) and the South Line, which all radiate outward from Recife station. The stations were designed to include various non-written means of identification, as the Northeast Region has a substantial rate of illiteracy (13.9% as of 2019). In addition to audio messages announcing the name of the stop, there are visual cues: a different color i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porto Alegre Metro
The Porto Alegre Metro ( Portuguese: ''Metrô de Porto Alegre'', commonly called ''Trem'' or ''Trensurb'') is a transit system operated jointly by the federal government, the state government of Rio Grande do Sul and the city of Porto Alegre through the company Trensurb (Company of Urban Trains of Porto Alegre SA) in Brasil. It has 22 stations, totaling of route, and carries about 175,000 users a day. History Line 1 of the subway built in Porto Alegre was started in 1980, linking the center of Porto Alegre to cities to the north of the metropolitan area, as Canoas, Esteio, Sapucaia do Sul, São Leopoldo and Novo Hamburgo. The route was selected to relieve the heavy traffic of highway BR-116, the only option before the construction of this line, which already had serious problems with transit at the time. The Line 1 was inaugurated on March 2, 1985 between the Central Public Market and Sapucaia do Sul, covering a route of and 15 stations. Extensions In December 1997, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
