Carandiru is a

metro station A metro station or subway station is a train station for a rapid transit system, which as a whole is usually called a "metro" or "subway". A station provides a means for passengers to purchase tickets, board trains, and evacuate the syste ...

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Line 1-Blue, located in the district of

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, in

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. It was opened on 26 September 1975.

Location

Located in Avenida Cruzeiro do Sul, 2487, in the district of Santana, North Side of São Paulo. It is next to the location of the old

Carandiru Penitentiary Carandiru Penitentiary, officially São Paulo House of Detention () was a penitentiary located in the North Zone of São Paulo, Brazil. It was inaugurated on April 21, 1920 and was built by the engineer-architect Samuel das Neves. The name ''Casa ...

, stage of many crises of the penitentiary system during more than 20 years, deactivated and imploded in 2002 to give place to Youth Park (

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Characteristics

It is an elevated station with structure in apparent concrete, prefabricated cover in concrete, and two side platforms. It also has, besides the access, two gates on each side of the platforms, in a way that the passenger who leaves the train in a platform cannot take the train on the opposite side without paying another fee. It has of built area and capacity for 20,000 passengers per hour during peak hours.

References

São Paulo Metro stations Railway stations in Brazil opened in 1975 {{SãoPaulo-metro-stub