Recife Metro
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The Recife Metro is operated by CBTU / Metrorec, is currently 20 stations- and 29.3 km long and carries about 180 thousand users every day.
[edit] System Characteristics
Recife Metro is currently formed by two lines, the Central Line (further divided into two lines) and South Line. Since 1988 the same entity is also administering the Trem Sul (South Train) line.
Because of the illiteracy rate in the region (around 10.55% according to the census of 2000 of IBGE), the stations were designed with a caution to include various forms of identification. Besides the service of audio messages announcing the name of the stop, there is a different colour used on the walls of every station and their signs are equipped with graphical symbols next to the name which always accompany the maps spread in the buildings.
Trains of the Center Line leaving the station Recife, have two distinct destinations: the cities of Camaragibe and of Jaboatão dos Guararapes. This is due to the fact that lines Center-1 (Camaragibe) and Center-2 (Jaboatão) share the part of the railway between Recife and Coqueiral stations, reusing the route of an old railway track where the subway was built. There is a project of doubling the route and stations to make these two lines independent.[citation needed]
In Lines of Metrorec the average distance between stations is of 1.2 kilometers, hence the typical speed of the train is 40 km/h, while the maximum speed is 80 km/h[citation needed]. The gauge is 1600 mm and energy supply for trains is done through aerial catenary. Along the Trem Sul line the average distance between stations is 4 km, the normal speed of the trains is of 31.5 km / h[citation needed], the metre gauge is used and trains used to have diesel traction.
The system currently has a total of 25.2 km of routes and after the completion of expansion of its network that has been in progress since mid-2005 the system will acquire a total length of 39.5 km. [1]
This system also has several bus lines linked from the terminals of bus / subway integration, through which a passenger can continue their travel on the same ticket. [2]
The Recife metro lines are generally at the ground level or above, as opposed to underground metro.
