Depending on the ideas of the State Government and SuperVia, the users of the old Central do Brasil trains may rejoice. According to the Pró XXI Project, presented this Friday (March 30) by the president of SuperVia, Amin Alves Murad, at the company’s main office, to Governor Sérgio Cabral and the state secretary of Transportation Júlio Lopes, in about two years the train will be transformed into a surface-subway system servicing 1.5 million passengers per day, with trains circulating at intervals of up to three minutes at rush hours – presently the minimum interval is 10 minutes.
For the plan to materialize, investments of US$ 570 million will be required. Of these, US$ 60 million would be applied by SuperVia in stations and general works in the system, and US$ 510 million would come from the state for the acquisition of 120 new air-conditioned trains and refurbishing of an additional 32, totaling a fleet of 220, with 190 air-conditioned (86% of the fleet). Presently, there are only 23 trains with air-conditioning (14%).
“It’s a low cost, if compared with the construction of a new transport system,” reasons the president of SuperVia.
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About 450,000 people use the trains of Central do Brasil daily. The figure, despite low if compared to the eighties, when over a million people traveled by rail, is already above the 145,000 of 1998, when the company was privatized and the concession was granted to SuperVia. The company’s plans are to continue to recover the passengers who migrated to road transportation.
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