Butantã (São Paulo Metro)

For other uses, see Butantã (disambiguation).

Butantã is a metro station on Line 4-Yellow of the São Paulo Metro operated by ViaQuatro. It opened on 28 March 2011, covering an area of 12,987.25 square metres (139,793.6 sq ft), and it has disabled access. The station is located on Avenida Vital Brasil, 427. It has three entrances, and it connects with a SPTrans bus terminal adjacent to the station.^[1] It is planned to connect Line 4-Yellow with future Line 22 (Rebouças–Cotia).^[3]

Butantã
The Butantã Subway Station in 2016
General information
Location	Av. Vital Brasil, 427[1] Butantã Brazil
Owned by	Government of the State of São Paulo
Operated by	ViaQuatro
Platforms	Side platforms
Connections	Butantã Bus Terminal Itapevi–Butantã Metropolitan Corridor
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	BUT
History
Opened	28 March 2011[1]
Passengers
38,810/business day[2]
Services
Preceding station São Paulo Metro Following station São Paulo-Morumbi towards Vila Sônia-Professora Elisabeth Tenreiro Line 4 Pinheiros towards Luz
Track layout Legend to Pinheiros to São Paulo-Morumbi

Characteristics

The station is located in Avenida Vital Brasil, 427, in a crossing with Rua Pirajussara. Is an underground station, with side platforms and support rooms above the ground level, with structures in concrete and a metallic structure catwalk, fixated with braces above the platforms. The ViaQuatro employees' offices and technical and operational rooms are located in external buildings, what would have avoided, according to the Metro, many expropriations.^[4]

The station has 9 ratchets, 14 escalators and 5 elevators, beside platform security doors (PSDs) in the platforms.^[4] It has access to people with disabilities and connection with urban bus terminal.

Its capacity was projected for an average of 35,000 daily passengers.^[5]

Station layout

G	Street level	Exit/entrance
M1	Concourse level 1	Fare control, ticket office, customer service, Bilhete Único/TOP recharge machines
M2	Concourse level 2	Distribution concourse
P Platform level
	Side platform, doors open on the right
	Southbound	← toward Vila Sônia–Professora Elisabeth Tenreiro
	Northbound	toward Luz →
	Side platform, doors open on the right

References

1. "Butantã - Sobre a Linha 4 - Amarela" (in Portuguese). ViaQuatro. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
2. "Entrada de passageiros por estação - Abril 2022" (PDF) (in Brazilian Portuguese). ViaQuatro. 2022-04-01. Retrieved 2022-06-11.
3. Lobo, Renato (12 August 2014). "Metrô deve concluir projeto funcional de linha entre SP e Cotia até o começo de 2015" (in Portuguese). ViaTroblebus. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
4. Fonseca, Marcela (28 March 2011). "Estação Butantã do Metrô tem 36 escadas" (in Portuguese). No. 6279. São Paulo: Metrô News.
5. Tomazela, José Maria (23 March 2011). "Estação Butantã abre segunda-feira" (in Portuguese). No. 14821. São Paulo: O Estado de S. Paulo. p. 6A. ISSN 1516-294X.