Vila Prudente (São Paulo Metro)

Vila Prudente is a station on Line 2-Green and Line 15-Silver of the São Paulo Metro and is the terminus.^[2] There are plans to integrate the station with Expresso Tiradentes Line 2 (a bus rapid transit system). The Vila Prudente Bus Terminal is also nearby.

Vila Prudente
Platform of the Vila Prudente station
General information
Location	Vila Prudente Brazil
Coordinates	23°35′04″S 46°34′55″W / 23.5845193°S 46.5819991°W / -23.5845193; -46.5819991
Owned by	Government of the State of São Paulo
Operated by	Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo
Platforms	Side platforms Island platform
Connections	Vila Prudente Bus Terminal Expresso Tiradentes
Construction
Structure type	Underground Elevated
Accessible	Yes
Architect	Luiz Carlos Esteves
Other information
Station code	VPT VPM
History
Opened	August 21, 2010 August 30, 2014
Passengers
75,000/business day^[1] 57,000/business day^[1]
Services
Preceding station São Paulo Metro Following station Tamanduateí towards Vila Madalena Line 2 Orfanato towards Penha-Lojas Besni Terminus Line 15 Oratório towards Jacu-Pêssego
Track layout Legend Line 2 to Tamanduateí to Orfanato Line 15 to Ipiranga to Oratório

Metro stations

It was scheduled to open in March 2010, but delays in the constructions prevented the opening,^[3] that became unknown until being scheduled, with three days in advance, to 21 August 2010.^[4] The passenger boarding, however, began only two days later, on Monday. In this first day of supervised operation, 7,400 passengers were transported in six hours, and more than 100 people crowded that station's entrance before it opened at 9:30 a.m. There were setbacks: in the first trip, the platform screen doors didn't open immediately in Sacomã station, problem solved quickly; and, the largest failure, there were misalignment of the train doors with the station doors, decreasing the space to leave the vehicles.

During the first week, the supervised operation time was from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.; from the second week and on, the time was expanded until 4 p.m.^[5] With the opening of Tamanduateí station, it worked Mon-Fri, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.,^[6] time expanded to between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. since 30 September 2010^[7] and between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. since 5 February 2011, when began the bill of the fare.^[8] Besides it, the station was kept in supervised operation. The time was extended again on 19 March 2011, from 4:40 a.m. to 9 p.m. According to the Metro, the time was not extended until midnight because there were 300 hours of tests to be executed in the signaling system.

Local residents who talked to Jornal da Tarde in April 2011 complained about a supposed increased of criminality in the surroundings of the station, as criminals were being attracted by the Metro users' cars parked in the region. "We didn't have this thing here", complained one of them. "It was a very calm region."^[9] The Military Police, however, said they didn't notice significant increase in the number of incidents.

Since 12 September 2011, the time was extended until midnight, same time as the other Metro stations.^[10] The expectation was that the 3 additional hours would increase in 2% the number of the line passengers.^[11]

On 30 August 2014, the station of the Line 15–Silver was opened, with the extension of the working time and connection with Line 2–Green on 20 December.

Station layout

P Platform level
	Eastbound	toward Jardim Colonial →
	Island platform, doors open on the left or right
	Eastbound	toward Jardim Colonial →
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, ticket office, customer service, Bilhete Único/TOP recharge machines, transfer between Lines   and
G	Street level	Exit/entrance
M1	Mezzanine level 1	Fare control, ticket office, customer service, Bilhete Único/TOP recharge machines
M2	Mezzanine level 2	Transfer between Lines   and
P Platform level
	Side platform, doors open on the left
	Northbound	←   toward Vila Madalena
	Northbound	←   toward Vila Madalena
	Side platform, doors open on the right

Bus terminal

Terminal Vila Prudente
General information
Owned by	Prefecture of São Paulo
Operated by	SPTrans
Bus routes	48
Bus operators	SPTrans
Connections	Line     Line
History
Opened	31 March 1980 (1980-03-31) (1st North Terminal) September 2017 (2017-09) (2nd North Terminal) 4 August 2018 (2018-08-04) (South Terminal) 20 May 2019 (2019-05-20) (Central Terminal)
Closed	23 March 2013 (2013-03-23) (1st North Terminal)
Track layout Legend     to Downtown                                                         to East Side

The Vila Prudente Terminal is a bus terminal in the city of São Paulo. Part of the project SISTRAN (network of 280 km of trolleybuses) of the City Hall of São Paulo, was one of the first bus terminals of the city, opened on 31 March 1980, along with Paes de Barros Corridor, first of the city.^[12][13]

The first terminal was composed of light structures pre-molded of concrete with aluminium roof tiles and was supposed to connected trolleybuses lines with buses moved by diesel. With the construction of the Vila Prudente station, the terminal was demolished on 23 March 2013, and a new temporary terminal was built in the surroundings.^[14]

The current terminal was project by architect Luiz Carlos Esteves in 2008, originally as terminal of the BRT Expresso Tiradentes. After that, his project was adapted to connect with terminals of lines 2–Green and 15–Silver of the Metro.

The first phase of the terminal was opened, under criticism, in September 2017. The second part of the terminal (central and south structures, under the monorail station) was opened to the population on 11 May 2019,^[15] and officially inaugurated on 20 May 2019.^[16]

North Terminal

Platform 1

Line #	Destination
2101–41	Pça. Silvio Romero
3160–10	Term. Pq. D. Pedro II

Central Terminal

Platform 2

Line #	Destination
364A/10	Hosp. Ipiranga
373T/10	Metrô Bresser
514T/10	Term. Sacomã
575C/10	Ipiranga
3021–10	Pq. Bancário
5142–10	Term. Pq. D. Pedro II
N501/11	Term. Pq. D. Pedro II
N536/11	Term. Sacomã

Platform 3

Line #	Destination
5110–10	Term. Mercado
5110–21	Term. Mercado
5110–22	Term. Mercado
5110–23	Term. Mercado
5110–24	São Mateus
5110–41	Metrô Tamanduateí
5143–10	Term. Pq. D. Pedro II
5143–31	Term. Pq. D. Pedro II

Platform 4

Line #	Destination
5109–10	Term. Mercado
5110–10	Term. São Mateus
5110–41	São Mateus
5143–10	Term. Sapopemba

Platform 5

Line #	Destination
364A/10	Shop. Aricanduva
373T/10	Jd. Itápolis
407Y/10	Pq. Savoy City
476G/10	Jd. Elba
476G/41	Vl. Industrial
514T/10	Jd. Itápolis
514T/22	Jd. Itápolis
573A/10	Vl. Alpina
575A/10	Div. São Caetano
575C/10	Vl. Matias
3024–10	Vl. Industrial
4288–10	Pq. Sta. Madalena
5142–10	Term. Sapopemba
N501/11	Term. São Mateus
N504/11	Term. Pq. D. Pedro II
N507/11	Metrô Santana
N531/11	Term. Sapopemba
N533/11	Jd. Planalto
N536/11	Jd. Itápolis
N537/11	Metrô Vl. Mariana

South Terminal

Platform 6

Line #	Destination
4029–10	São Mateus
4284–10	Vl. Califórnia
4286–10	Vl. Industrial
4288–10	Term. Pq. D. Pedro II

References

1. "Entrada de Passageiros por Estação - Média Dias Úteis - 2023" (PDF) (in Portuguese). 2023-09-15. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
2. "Vila Prudente". São Paulo Metro (in Portuguese).
3. "Plano de expansão do metrô de SP vai atrasar" (in Portuguese). Folha de S. Paulo. 23 March 2010. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
4. Hasselmann, Caroline (21 August 2010). "Estação Vila Prudente do Metrô de SP é inaugurada" (in Portuguese). G1. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
5. "Metrô de SP amplia funcionamento da estação Vila Prudente para até as 16h" (in Portuguese). Folha de S. Paulo. 30 August 2010. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
6. "Estação Tamanduateí integra metrô e trens" (in Portuguese). Prefeitura de São Paulo. 27 September 2010. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
7. "Novas estações do Metrô de SP têm horário de funcionamento ampliado" (in Portuguese). G1. 20 September 2010. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
8. "Estações Vila Prudente e Tamanduateí passam a ser cobradas" (in Portuguese). Último Segundo. 5 February 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
9. Capitelli, Marici (25 April 2011). "Crimes chegam junto com as novas estações" (in Portuguese). No. 14854. Jornal da Tarde. p. 3A. ISSN 1516-294X.
10. "Mais de um ano após inauguração, linha 4 do Metrô de São Paulo passa a funcionar até 0h" (in Portuguese). Uol. 11 September 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
11. "Ainda não está definida abertura aos domingos" (in Portuguese). No. 14994. Jornal da Tarde. 12 September 2011. p. 5A. ISSN 1516-294X.
12. Lobo, Renato (14 October 2014). "São Paulo teria 280 km de corredores de trólebus" (in Portuguese). Via Trolebus. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
13. "Tróleibus atrasam no 1o. dia" (in Portuguese). No. 18626. Folha de S. Paulo. 1 April 1980. p. 11. ISSN 1414-5723. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
14. Rodrigues, Gerson (22 March 2013). "Terminal Vila Prudente de ônibus será desativado neste sábado" (in Portuguese). Folha da Vila Prudente. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
15. "SPTrans começa operação com 33 linhas no terminal de ônibus Vila Prudente" (in Portuguese). G1. 11 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
16. "Vila Prudente recebe novo terminal de ônibus" (in Portuguese). Prefeitura de São Paulo. 20 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.