Line 1 - Laranja
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Inaugurated	1979
Stations	19
Status	in service

|}Line 1 of the Rio de Janeiro Metro

Rio de Janeiro Metro

The Rio de Janeiro Metro is a mass-transit underground railway network that serves the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded in 1979 with five stations operating on one line, it now covers 47 km divided into two lines and 35 stations...

serves the city's downtown business centre, the tourist areas in the city's South Zone, and several neighbourhoods in the North Zone. It is a semi-circular line, and is fully underground. It runs from Saens Peña to Ipanema/General Osório.

It is the original line of the Rio de Janeiro Metro system and it was constructed from June 1970 to March 1979.

History of Line 1

In 1979, the line began operations with 5 stations: Praça Onze , Central, Presidente Vargas, Cinelandia and Gloria. In 1980, the stations Estácio, Uruguaiana were added. A year later, the Botafogo, Flamengo and Largo do Machado stations opened. In 1982, the line was extended to Saens Peña with the São Francisco Xavier and Afonso Pena stations added.

Accessibility issues

Inaccessibility

Accessibility

Accessibility is a general term used to describe the degree to which a product, device, service, or environment is available to as many people as possible. Accessibility can be viewed as the "ability to access" and benefit from some system or entity...

for disabled persons on Line 1 has come under scrutiny in recent years. When the line opened in 1979, there was no appropriate legislation to mandate accessibility and therefore not built to contemporary access standards.