Uruguai Station
Uruguai / Tijuca  | |||||||||||
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 Opening day of Uruguai Station in March 2014 | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Rua Conde de Bonfim, 743 Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro Brazil | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 22°55′57″S 43°14′19″W / 22.9325°S 43.238611°W | ||||||||||
| Operated by | Metrô Rio | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Line 1 | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes[1] | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes[1] | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | March 15, 2014[2] | ||||||||||
| Previous names | Uruguai | ||||||||||
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  Uruguai / Tijuca Location within Rio de Janeiro | |||||||||||
Uruguai / Tijuca is a station on the Rio de Janeiro Metro that services the neighborhood of Tijuca in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro.
The station was inaugurated in 15 March 2014, more than 30 years after initially being promised.[2] It was previously simply named Uruguai, but was renamed alongside many others in August 2022 to include its neighborhood, Tijuca, in the name.[3] Uruguai was the first metro station in Rio de Janeiro to be fitted with Wi-Fi for passenger use.[4][verification needed]
Passenger traffic[edit]
| Year | Passengers | ±% |
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| 2014 | 5,437,874 | — |
| 2015 | 7,297,128 | +34.2% |
| 2016 | 7,759,343 | +6.3% |
| 2017 | 7,160,989 | −7.7% |
| 2018 | 6,995,146 | −2.3% |
| 2019 | 7,211,233 | +3.1% |
| 2020 | 2,973,707 | −58.8% |
| 2021 | 2,948,597 | −0.8% |
| Note: This table displays the total amount of passengers reportedly transported in the station in a given year. Source: Rio de Janeiro Municipal Government.[5] | ||
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Uruguai / Tijuca" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro Metro. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ a b "Estação Uruguai do metrô é aberta ao público na Tijuca". O Globo (in Brazilian Portuguese). 15 March 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
- ^ "Estações do metrô no Rio receberão complemento com nomes dos bairros onde estão localizadas" [Rio de Janeiro Metro stations will receive complement with neighborhood names where they're located]. G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 4 August 2022. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ Hearst, Chesney (17 March 2014). "New Tijuca Metro Station Opened in Rio: Daily". The Rio Times. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
- ^ "Total mensal de passageiros transportados no Metrô, segundo as estações e linhas, no Município do Rio de Janeiro entre 1998 e 2021" [Monthly total of passengers transported by the Metro, according to stations and lines, in the Rio de Janeiro city between 1998 and 2021]. Data.rio (in Brazilian Portuguese). 19 March 2022. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
External links[edit]
Media related to Estação Uruguai at Wikimedia Commons
