Ipiranga is a

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CPTM , owner = São Paulo State Government , area served = Greater São Paulo, Brazil , transit_type = Commuter rail , lines = 5 , line_number = , s ...

Line 10-Turquoise, located in the city of

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. The station is located on the west side of Vila Prudente district.

History

Ipiranga station opened on 1 April 1886, to serve as a support structure to the project for the

Ipiranga Museum The Museu Paulista of the University of São Paulo, commonly known as Museu do Ipiranga, is a Brazilian history museum located near the place where Emperor Pedro I proclaimed Brazil's independence on the banks of Ipiranga brook in the Southeast ...

. It was built between 1885 and 1890. After

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, an industrial boom in the surrounding region increased the station's use. This industrial movement reached its highest point in the 1950s, with the arrival of the

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. factory in 1953, which rerouted railroads to reach its installations. From the 1950s, thousands of workers used this station as their daily transport.

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set plans for construction of a new building to open in mid-1960. With the beginning of de-industrialization, Ipiranga station lost its importance as the old industries gave place to empty warehouses. This migration movement of industrial plants to other locations also reached the Ford factory, which closed in 2001, transferring the production to Camaçari, Bahia). Unlike other unoccupied factories and still active, Ford's factory was partially demolished, becoming a shopping mall. Since 1 June 1994, the station is operated by CPTM.

Projects

New station

On 11 May 2005, the consortium composed of Maubertec and Herjack companies was hired by CPTM at the cost of 845,974

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(

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). With additives, the cost reached 888,036.85 BRL ( USD) to rebuild stations Mooca, Ipiranga, Utinga and Prefeito Saladino. On 29 March 2008, the projects were delivered. CPTM signed them up in the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC), contemplated in the pre-selection phase. With the 2014 economic crisis, many PAC financings were cancelled, including the reconstruction.

Expresso Tiradentes

The project of the

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BRT was to connect Ipiranga station with the train station; only part of the structure was implemented. It may be implemented along with the future Metro Line 15-Silver station.

Subway stations

The São Paulo Metro planned the expansion of Line 15-Silver between Vila Prudente and Ipiranga, to become the line terminus. This project has no implementation date. During the opening of stations Sapopemba, Fazenda da Juta and São Mateus,

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, Secretary of Metropolitan Transports, stated that the state government is willing to announce the beginning of the construction of the monorail station in 2020. Another project is the planned expansion of Metro Line 5-Lilac from Chácara Klabin station towards Ipiranga. Funds are not allocated.

Toponymy

The word "ipiranga" comes from the

Tupi language Old Tupi, Ancient Tupi or Classical Tupi (also spelled as Tupí) is an extinct Tupian language which was spoken by the aboriginal Tupi people of Brazil, mostly those who inhabited coastal regions in South and Southeast Brazil. It belongs to ...

''ypiranga'' and means "red river", formed by a junction of the terms ''y'' (water, river) and ''piranga'' (red). In 2010, State Deputies José Bittencourt (PRB) and Vaz de Lima (PSDB) tried to rename the station to ''Ipiranga-Pastor Alfreto Reikdal'', after the homonymous obscure religious leader, but the proposal was rejected. According to CPTM studies in the 22nd Week of Metroviary Technology of the Metro Engineers and Architects Association (AEAMESP), the cost for an intermediary station like Ipiranga renaming is almost 620,000 BRL ( USD), a reason why CPTM avoids renaming stations, except when obligated by law.

References

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