Transport will have the largest investment

The percentile largest of Olympic investments in Rio, runs for office the headquarters of the Olympic Games of 2016, is reserved for the section of transports. And the legacies for the city promise to be precious.

It is soon in the arrival that an Olympic city has to give a good impression. And the works in the airports are already being made. In the International Airport Tom Jobim, in the Governor’s Island, suburb, besides the reforms, they will be more two terminals and an increase in the capacity to receive passengers of 15 million for 25 million a year.

In the report of the International Olympic Committee, the system of transport of Rio was reason concern for.

Stadiums, gyms, sporting facilities are for the hours of leisure of the carioca. But where he spends hours of his day is in the sway for the city. A lot of money will cost, but it is the improvement of the transport system that will make more difference in the people’s life.

40% of the investments in transports

Of the almost R$ 29 billion of investments foreseen for the games, almost 40% will be applied in transports. Train, bus and subway: all will receive substantial investments.

For the rail transport, they will be 120 new trains, besides the reform and installation of air conditioned in almost a hundred of them.

A new system will be BRT –  bus of fast traffic. They will be three exclusive corridors for those vehicles. One of them would leave Leblon, in the South Area, it would go by São Conrado and it would cross the whole Barra da Tijuca, until arriving in Riocentro, in the Zona Oeste. Other, the old projects T5, it would leave the Rock, in the suburb, it would cross neighborhoods of the North Area, areas of Jacarepaguá and when it arrived to Barra, it would proceed in two directions: until Riocentro and until the terminal Alvorada.

In the third corridor, the busses would leave Bangu, they would go by other neighborhoods of the Zona Oeste, like Deodoro, and they would proceed for Jacarepaguá, with final destiny also Riocentro.

It can be an interesting solution and it can come to help to solve some of the mobility problems that we have in our city. Mainly in the Zona Oeste, that is the connection of the part there of top, of Bangu, Campo Grande, with the Slope of Barra, Recreation of the Pioneers, and the own corridor T5, that it is connection Barra-rock, where the expansion is foreseen, in the future, of a subway line, the Line 6″, explained to Hostílio Xavier Ratton, engineer of transports of Coppe UFRJ.

But goes another specialist, that bus type i not still enough. “System of fast bus i an alternative that i lives viable in terms of execution certainty, and relatively cheaper. But only that i not the best goes city. The best goes city, really, i to expand the subway up to where it can – until Barra, that i the initial dream that we have”, engineer José Eugênio Loyalist said, of PUC.

New stations of the subway

Still that year the residents of Ipanema, in the South Area, will already be able to go subway home with the inauguration of the General Osório Station.

Besides the extension of the line 1 to Ipanema, other inaugurations are foreseen. In December it begins to the direct connection to work between Pavuna and Botafogo. Without needing more of the transfer of Estácio, the trip is 13 minutes shorter.

Already for the station Uruguay, in Tijuca, North Area, the forecast is of inauguration in 2014, when the subway also the Topsail should arrive, going by three new stations, in Ipanema and in Leblon.

It is away doesn’t do part of the Olympic promise, the state and municipal governments’ intention is that, with the games in Rio, the subway also arrives to Barra da Tijuca to 2016.

It “imagines you to have the subway arriving to Barra. The jam for Barra is terrible, you today take one hour and twenty, an hour and a half for arriving in Barra, and with the subway you would take twenty minutes”, said  the engineer of the subway Eduardo Aguiar.

Fonte: G1