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São Paulo Metro is a young metro and very modern and efficient. Although, despite São Paulo being one of the largest cities in the world, with a population of nearly 20 million, the system can be seen as relatively small when compared to its European or North American counterparts.
As of 2005, it consisted of four lines: Line 1, Line 2, Line 3 and Line 5-Lilac, serving a total of 55 stations. The metro system carries 2,500,000 persons a day. Metro itself does not cover all the urban area. Another company, CPTM (Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos), works along the metro system and runs railways converted into metro, which total six lines (A, B, C, D, E, and F), about 250 km long, serving 92 stations. Metro and CPTM have integration between the stations. Both Metro and CPTM operate as a government company, and have received awards in the recent past as the cleanest system in the world.
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The first line, Norte-Sul (North-South), later renamed "blue line", and then Line 1 – Blue, started operations on September 14, 1974. That was after an eight year gestation period that started in 1966, under mayor Faria Lima.
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