Itapevi–Butantã Metropolitan Corridor

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]

Itapevi–Butantã Metropolitan Corridor
Km 21 Bus Terminal, part of the São Paulo–Itapevi Bus Corridor
Overview
OwnerEMTU
Locale
Transit typeBus rapid transit
Number of stations42
Websitewww.metra.com.br
Operation
Began operationMarch 2018 (2018-03)
Operator(s)Metra
Technical
System length23.6 km (14.7 mi)
Top speed50 km/h (31 mph)
System map

 Itapevi Bus Terminal
Benedito de Abreu
 Engenheiro Cardoso
Ameríndia
 Antonio C. Fonseca
Itapevi
Jandira
 Rosa Maria
Mariana
 Prestes Maia
 Jandira
Secretaria de Saúde
Jandira
Barueri
 Jardim Silveira
Exército Brasileiro
 Jardim Belval
Prefeitura de Barueri
 Barueri
Arsenal de Guerra
 Estrada Velha
Barueri
Carapicuíba
 Vitório Fornazaro
 Santa Terezinha
Getúlio Vargas
 Carapicuíba
Brasil
 Fórum de Carapicuíba
Carapicuíba
Osasco
 Km 21 Bus Terminal
Stretch in project
 General Florêncio
 Quitaúna
Anunciata de Lucia
 Comandante Sampaio
Praça 31 de Março
 Avenida Liberdade
 Antônio Agú
 Dona Primitiva Vianco
 Teatro Municipal
 União
 Vila Yara Terminal
Osasco
São Paulo
 Stretch with shared traffic
 Butantã Bus Terminal

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

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]

  • 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
  1. "Avaliação do Potencial de Desenvolvimento Orientado ao Transporte Sustentável (DOTS)" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Empresa Paulista de Planejamento Metropolitano. January 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2019. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "Obras do Corredor Metropolitano Itapevi-São Paulo" (in Portuguese). Empresa Metropolitana de Transportes Urbanos. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  3. "S. Paulo-Itu" (in Portuguese) (21127). Correio Paulistano. 3 May 1922. p. 1. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  4. Lobo, Renato (14 October 2014). "São Paulo terá 280 km de corredores de trólebus" (in Portuguese). Via Trólebus. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  5. "Região Metropolitana de São Paulo - Empreendimentos de Infra-estrutura" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Empresa Paulista de Planejamento Metropolitano. Retrieved 20 December 2019. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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