Butantã (São Paulo Metro)

São Paulo Metro station

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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

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

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]

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

^ ^a ^b ^c "Butantã - Sobre a Linha 4 - Amarela" (in Portuguese). ViaQuatro. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
^ "Entrada de passageiros por estação - Abril 2022" (PDF) (in Brazilian Portuguese). ViaQuatro. 2022-04-01. Retrieved 2022-06-11.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b Fonseca, Marcela (28 March 2011). "Estação Butantã do Metrô tem 36 escadas" (in Portuguese). No. 6279. São Paulo: Metrô News.
^ 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.