Monday, June 28, 2010

Metro expansion started for the Rio 2016 Games

The work is to be delivered to the population in 2015




Photo: Henrique Freire

Governor Sérgio Cabral started the perforation work of the Metro Line 4 tunnel, which will make the connection between the Western and Southern Zones of the city, where two of the four sports competition clusters will be installed for the Rio 2016 Games. Metro Line 4 is part of a group of infrastructure legacy commitments of the Olympic Games to the city, which the three levels of government took up with the International Olympic Committee during the Rio bid.

At the ceremony for the beginning of the constructions, Governor Sérgio Cabral informed that the Metro Line 4 will be delivered to the population in 2015. “This is going to be a great legacy for the next generations. We are building the 2016 generation, which will have a lot better quality of life, which will live in a lot better city. And we said that while we were fighting to get the Olympic Games.”, stated the Governor.

Rio 2016 Games Organizing Committee president, Carlos Nuzman, present at the event, congratulated Governor Sérgio Cabral for the political decision of embracing the Games cause and believing in the investment in the city of Rio de Janeiro. “I consider this work as an icon of the transformation that the Olympic Games can do for a city”, stated Nuzman.

For the beginning of the constructions, 1,500 native plants were withdrawn, most of which bromeliads, from the area where the digging will take place. The plants were taken to the Botanical Gardens of Rio. The action shows the commitment Rio government has with the environment – a vision that will govern the procedures from beginning to end.

The event had the presence of Vice-governor Luiz Fernando de Souza Pezão, secretary Chief of Staff, Régis Fitcher, State secretary of Transport, Sebastião Rodrigues, Rio Games CEO, Leonardo Gryner and Rio 2016 Institutional Relations director, Agemar Sanctos, besides several other commercial association representatives and local population.

Barra da Tijuca Western Zone metro Southern Zones transport

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