Reprodução espacial: uma análise da implantação da linha 2 do Sistema Metroviário de Salvador e Lauro de Freitas

Abstract

The research that culminated in the elaboration of this dissertation had as its object of study the implementation of line 2 that is part of the Salvador and Lauro de Freitas Metro System, seeking to identify and understand the main spatial consequences triggered by the construction of the aforementioned subway layout. Enterprises associated with the transport sector have several effects on spatial configuration and organization, as socioeconomic activities depend on the equipment for mobility conditions. During the urbanization process, several Brazilian cities started to include the subway mode of transportation in their transport systems, but the adoption of the subway mode of transportation slowly expanded in the country. In Salvador, the first political initiative to implement a modern subway system emerged in the mid-1980s, but the project was shelved. In the second half of the 1990s, a new project was signed, which began to be executed in the early 2000s, but various bureaucratic and political obstacles led to successive delays in its completion. However, after the transfer of project management from the municipal to the state political and administrative sphere, in a new context characterized by the preparation for the 2014 Soccer World Cup, progress was made in completing line 1, in addition to changes in the project to enable the incorporation of a new route, that is, line 2, with the main objective of linking the Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport to the city center, thus creating the Salvador and Lauro de Freitas Metro System (SMSLF). The implementation of line 2 triggered a marked change in the material structure that formed the spatial cutout where it was inserted and also contributed to changes in the urban transport system. This reality could be exemplified, in this study, by the alteration that occurred in the landscape, due to the construction of the structural supports that form the subway layout; in addition to the deactivation of many bus lines. It is noteworthy that the facts found highlighted the dialectical relationship between objects and social content.