República

República is a metro station located in the República district, in the center zone of São Paulo. The stations connects the lines 3-Red, operated by Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo, and 4-Yellow, operated by Motiva Linha 4.

Before the comments that Praça da República would be disfigured by the construction of the East-West Line, Mário Alves de Mello, Municipal Secretary of Metropolitan Transports, stated in November 1974: "There is a possibility to use the underground area, if the new plan needs the line to pass by Praça da República. Besides that, the technological advance and the technical order resources that the Metro Company has, even this occur, there is a possibility to avoid this rumored denaturation of the plaza. An example is what happened to Praça da Sé. After the end of the construction, the region will have the double of the plaza area. It would be foolishness of the administration, even in the benefit of the progress, harm the population and, specially, the residents and children of that area, who enjoy healthy leisure in the Praça da República." The beginning of the construction of the station, in 1979, occurred with the closing of the street in front of the building of the State Secretariat of Education with blue walls. According to the head of the construction site, the neighbourhood didn't notice that construction had started because, beside the station was deep, the workers were being careful for the sand not bother the residents: "When the trucks leave the site, a worker removes, with shovel and water, the sand that is stuck in the tires. The construction brought us many technical innovations, as the use of rolling bridges with excavator shells - before, ramps were opened to allow trucks to go to the underground where the sand was removed - and the shoring in larger distances than the usual, proportioning cost reduction."

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