Porto Alegre Metro
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The Metro de Porto Alegre is 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) and has 17 stations, totaling 42 km of extension. Carrying about 130 thousand users a day.
[edit] History
The 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 choice of path was made to relieve the heavy traffic of highway BR-116, only option before the construction of this line, which already had serious problems with the transit at the time.
The Line 1 was inaugurated on March 2, 1985 between the Central Public Market and Sapucaia do Sul. In December 1997 was extended to Unisinos.
An extension of 2.4 miles São Leopoldo-Museum was added in November 2000, after two months of trial service.
[edit] System Characteristics
The Medicine of Porto Alegre has an average distance between each station which is 2 km, hence the speed communication is of 46 km / h maximum speed of the train is 90 km / h. The gauge is 1600 mm and feeding of trains is done by air using a catenary tension of 3000 VDC.
