ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEThe report says the second phase from Vila Formosa to Penha has "service expected to begin in 2028", a year rather than a fixed day.[1]
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- Dec 31, 202850% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
São Paulo Metro's Line 2-Green Set to Reach Penha in 2028
The 8.3 km eastern extension adds eight stations from Vila Prudente out to Penha and will make Line 2-Green the network's longest at 23 km. The first four stations, Orfanato, Santa Clara, Anália Franco and Vila Formosa, are due in 2027, and the São Paulo state government puts the whole extension at R$15 billion.
- The Line 2-Green extension is split in two stages: the first, Vila Prudente to Vila Formosa with four new stations, "is set to open in 2027"; the second, Vila Formosa to Penha, adds four more stations - Santa Isabel, Guilherme Giorgi, Aricanduva and Penha - "with service expected to begin in 2028", the year the pin carries[1]
- The extension "will add 8.3 km of track and eight new stations between Vila Prudente and Penha, interconnecting with Lines 3-Red, 11-Coral, and the future Line 16-Violet", funded with BRL 15 billion (USD 2.6 billion) from the Government of São Paulo[1]
- Once completed it is expected to benefit an estimated 1.2 million passengers daily in São Paulo's eastern region[1]
- The milestone the article reports: "The largest tunnel boring machine (TBM) in Latin America, known as Cora Coralina, has completed the first phase of tunnelling works on the São Paulo Metro Line 2 Green expansion", reaching the Falchi Gianini ventilation shaft on Friday 30 May, "its final destination before Vila Prudente station"[1]
- That first phase completes 4.5 km of alignment and 3.7 km of tunnels connecting five construction shafts and four future stations - Orfanato, Santa Clara, Anália Franco and Vila Formosa - plus the Rapadura Complex[1]
- Since excavation began at the Rapadura Complex in November 2023 the machine has removed 394,000 cubic metres of soil and placed 2,456 precast rings; from Orfanato station alone it advanced 332 metres, removed 35,000 cubic metres of soil and installed 291 concrete rings[1]
- Cora Coralina "will now be dismantled and transported to the Penha station site, where it will begin tunnelling the second phase in reverse—heading back toward Rapadura"; disassembly "will take up to 180 days", with components lifted from the Falchi Gianini shaft and trucked to Penha[1]
- The machine is 100 metres long and 2,500 tonnes with an 11.66-metre-diameter cutterhead, can excavate and line up to 15 metres of tunnel per day, and is worked by roughly 150 engineers, technicians, mechanics and electricians in three shifts[1]
- The article does not say the extension makes Line 2-Green the network's longest at 23 km, as the pin does[1]
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- [1]50%railwaypro.com/wp/major-milestone-for-sao-paulo-metro-line-2-expansionrailwaypro.com· Posted Sep 20, 2026· Starts Dec 31, 2028 ✓· 100% of score
The report says the second phase from Vila Formosa to Penha has "service expected to begin in 2028", a year rather than a fixed day.
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