Carandiru (São Paulo Metro)

Carandiru is a metro station on São Paulo Metro Line 1-Blue, located in the district of Santana, in São Paulo. It was opened on 26 September 1975.[1]

Carandiru
LocationAv. Cruzeiro do Sul, 2487
Santana
Brazil
Coordinates23°30′35″S 46°37′30″W
Owned by Government of the State of São Paulo
Operated by Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo
PlatformsSide platforms
Construction
Structure typeElevated
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Station codeCDU
History
OpenedSeptember 26, 1975
Traffic
Passengers16,000/business week (June 2019)
Services
Preceding station   São Paulo Metro   Following station
toward Tucuruvi
Line 1
toward Jabaquara

Location
View from the platform of the station.

Located in Avenida Cruzeiro do Sul, 2487,[1] in the district of Santana, North Side of São Paulo. It is next to the location of the old Carandiru Penitentiary, stage of many crisis of the penitentiary system during more than 20 years, deactivated and imploded in 2002 to give place to Youth Park (Parque da Juventude).

Characteristics
Train leaving the station.

It is an elevated station with structure in apparent concrete, prefabricated cover in concrete, and two side platforms.[1] It also has, besides the access, two gates in 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 6,880 square metres (74,100 sq ft) of built area and capacity for 20,000 passengers per hour during peak hours.[1]

Track layout
to Santana
to Portuguesa-Tietê

References
  1. "Estação Carandiru" (in Portuguese). Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo. Retrieved 7 August 2019.


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