Itapevi–Butantã Metropolitan Corridor

Itapevi–Butantã Metropolitan Corridor
Itapevi–Butantã Metropolitan Corridor
	Km 21 Bus Terminal, part of the São Paulo–Itapevi Bus Corridor
Overview
Owner	EMTU
Locale	São Paulo; Osasco; Carapicuíba; Barueri; Jandira; Itapevi;
Transit type	Bus rapid transit
Number of stations	42
Website	www.metra.com.br
Operation
Began operation	March 2018; 6 years ago
Operator(s)	Metra
Technical
System length	23.6 km (14.7 mi)
Top speed	50 km/h (31 mph)
System map
	Legend
	Itapevi
	Jandira
	Jandira
	Barueri
	Barueri
	Carapicuíba
	Carapicuíba
	Osasco
	Osasco
	São Paulo

Itapevi–São Paulo (Butantã) Metropolitan Corridor, with 33 km (21 mi) of extension, starts in Itapevi Bus Terminal, connected with CPTM Line 8-Diamond, in Itapevi, and goes to ViaQuatro Butantã station of Line 4-Yellow, in São Paulo. The project reaches the cities of Itapevi, Jandira, Barueri, Carapicuíba, Osasco and São Paulo which total approximately 13 million inhabitants.^[1]

In its first phase, the corridor with approximately 5 km (3.1 mi) connects Itapevi and Jandira, along with stations Itapevi, Engenheiro Cardoso, Sagrado Coração and Jandira.^[2]

History[edit]

The region interconnected through Estrada Velha de Itu, used by tropeiros for trips between São Paulo, Carapicuíba Village, Santana de Parnaíba, Sorocaba and Itu. Throughout the 20th century, roads were built, as the old road towards Itu was replaced by a highway (current SP-312) on 1 May 1922. This road became (beside Sorocabana railway and future Castelo Branco and Raposo Tavares highways) one of the transport corridors that boosted the region growth, being one of the points of population densification that went there.^[3]

In 1934, the first regular bus lines began operating between Carapicuíba, Largo da Batata and Lapa, which became the main regional centres of West Side São Paulo. In the next 30 years, the cities of São Paulo, Santana de Paraíba and Cotia break up, creating new cities: Itapevi (1949), Barueri (1949), Osasco (1962), Carapicuíba (1964) and Jandira (1964).

Until then, the public transportation was controlled by the state through permissions, creating dozens of companies and small vehicle owners. This situation is changed in the 1970s with the creation of EMTU, which starts regulating the intermunicipal lines. In the same decade, the first modernization project of this transport corridor was made. The Prefecture of São Paulo suggests the installing of a trolleybus corridor between Largo da Batata and Osasco.^[4] Besides the construction was never initiated, EMTU keeps planning the corridor (now called West Road Corridor) through the 1980s and 1990s.^[5]

Gallery[edit]

Butantã Terminal
Avenida Corifeu de Azevedo Marques, São Paulo
Barueri Intermunicipal Line in Avenida Corifeu
Municipal Line of São Paulo in Avenida Corifeu
Border between São Paulo and Osasco
View of Avenida dos Autonomistas, Osasco, part of the corridor
View of the corridor under Viaduto Tancredo Neves, Osasco
Access to Km 21 Bus Terminal in Avenida dos Autonomistas, in the border between Osasco and Carapicuíba
View of corridor in Jardim Belval, Barueri
Aspect of the corridor in Barueri
Viaduto Ameríndia, Itapevi, built as access to the corridor
View of the new stretch of the corridor in Itapevi

References[edit]

^ "Avaliação do Potencial de Desenvolvimento Orientado ao Transporte Sustentável (DOTS)" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Empresa Paulista de Planejamento Metropolitano. January 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
^ "Obras do Corredor Metropolitano Itapevi-São Paulo" (in Portuguese). Empresa Metropolitana de Transportes Urbanos. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
^ "S. Paulo-Itu" (in Portuguese). No. 21127. Correio Paulistano. 3 May 1922. p. 1. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
^ Lobo, Renato (14 October 2014). "São Paulo terá 280 km de corredores de trólebus" (in Portuguese). Via Trólebus. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
^ "Região Metropolitana de São Paulo - Empreendimentos de Infra-estrutura" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Empresa Paulista de Planejamento Metropolitano. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 June 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2019.