SkyRail Bahia is a proposed
monorail
A monorail (from "mono", meaning "one", and " rail") is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail or a beam.
Colloquially, the term "monorail" is often used to describe any form of elevated rail or people mover. More accurat ...
system serving
Salvador, Bahia in
Brazil
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. Upon completion, Salvador will become the second Brazilian city to be served by a monorail line after
São Paulo
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's
Line 15.
Background
The
Salvador Metro
The Salvador Metro (Brazilian Portuguese: ''Metrô de Salvador'', commonly called ''Metrô or Sistema Metropolitano Salvador-Lauro de Freitas'') is a rapid transit system serving Salvador city, the state capital of Bahia and the fourth largest cit ...
opened in 2014 and currently consists of two lines.
A
metre gauge commuter rail
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line links Salvador with Paripe, which was proposed to be replaced by another form of rail transit following the opening of the metro. In May 2018, the consortium SkyRail Bahia, founded by
BYD Company
BYD Co. Ltd. ("Build Your Dreams" Chinese: 比亚迪股份有限公司) is a publicly listed Chinese conglomerate manufacturing company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It was founded by Wang Chuanfu in February 1995.[Simões Filho
Simões Filho is a municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil.
Notable people
* Danilo Barbosa (born 28 February 1996), simply known as Danilo, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Valenci ...]
.
Operations
Once fully complete in 2022, SkyRail Bahia will be a two line monorail network.
The Orange Line will connect the Salvador Metro's Accesso Norte station to Ilha de São João with 24 stations, and is expected to carry 172,000 daily passengers. The Green Line will be with three stations, connecting São Joaquim to the neighborhood of Comércio.
References
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External links
Official site
Monorails
Rapid transit in Brazil
Monorails in Brazil