Carandiru (São Paulo Metro)

Carandiru
General information
Location	Av. Cruzeiro do Sul, 2487 Santana Brazil
Coordinates	23°30′35″S 46°37′30″W
Owned by	Government of the State of São Paulo
Operated by	Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo
Platforms	Side platforms
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	CDU
History
Opened	September 26, 1975
Passengers
16,000/business week (June 2019)
Services
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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.

Location

View from the platform of the station.

Located in Avenida Cruzeiro do Sul, 2487, 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

Train leaving the station.

It is an elevated station with structure in apparent concrete, prefabricated cover in concrete, and two side platforms. 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.

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