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]
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Location | Av. Cruzeiro do Sul, 2487 Santana Brazil | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 23°30′35″S 46°37′30″W | ||||||||||
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Platforms | Side platforms | ||||||||||
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Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
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Station code | CDU | ||||||||||
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Opened | September 26, 1975 | ||||||||||
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16,000/business week (June 2019) | |||||||||||
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Location
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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
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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]
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References
- "Estação Carandiru" (in Portuguese). Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo. Retrieved 7 August 2019.