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Rio’s Metro Line 4 to Open in Time for Olympics Games

By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – City officials in Rio de Janeiro announced on Monday (March 7th) that in a little over four months city residents and tourists will be able to ride from Ipanema in Zona Sul (South Zone) to Barra da Tijuca on the metro subway. According to administrators by the middle of the year the Metro Line 4 will be ready to transport more than 300,000 persons per day, withdrawing nearly two thousand vehicles from the roads during rush hour.

According to state officials tests on the line are already being conducted . . .

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