{"id":34709,"date":"2017-01-18T19:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T22:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=34709"},"modified":"2017-01-23T19:43:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T22:43:29","slug":"what-happened-to-the-providencia-cable-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=34709","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to the Provid\u00eancia Cable Car?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas\"\"<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

For the original article by Karine Ferreira\u00a0in Portuguese\u00a0published by Ag\u00eancia de Not\u00edcias da Favela\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Times are tough in Morro da Provid\u00eancia<\/a>, the oldest favela<\/a> in Brazil. Just like in Complexo do Alem\u00e3o<\/a>, Provid\u00eancia residents and workers who used the cable car, in this case to cross the Jo\u00e3o Ricardo Tunnel, are once again hindered by service interruptions.<\/p>\n

Morro da Provid\u00eancia, located in downtown Rio<\/a>, started to suffer from transport changes imposed back in 2013, while Eduardo Paes<\/a> was Mayor of Rio. The Port Region<\/a>\u00a0began to get special attention from the City and businessmen, principally from the real estate industry. Even back in 2013 we were already starting to hear rumors of changes and construction works that would be carried out in the favela. Lots of houses were identified for removal<\/a> (!), to make way for a funicular tram–a plan which ended up being shelved–which was to be built in one of the oldest areas of the favela: the steps of the Am\u00e9rico Brum Square<\/a>. The square, regarded as the heart of the favela, later suffered a major change with the construction of a cable car<\/a>\u00a0station, which was installed with the promise that it would help increase residents\u2019 mobility, though not everyone in the favela agreed. Despite many protests, construction took place without any consultation with residents who would be the most affected by the cable car.<\/p>\n

Once the construction was completed, the cable car only partially functioned from 2014. This meant that residents that had already gotten used to the new means of transport ended up being inconvenienced by abrupt system closures. Since its inauguration with full opening times in 2015, the cable car has stopped functioning for \u201cmaintenance\u201d at least three times, each time for an undetermined amount of time. Residents find out about closures through word of mouth in the favela, since there\u2019s no official communication regarding service interruption, not even to inform residents when the car will be back in action.<\/p>\n

Since the first week of December 2016, the Provid\u00eancia cable car has yet again been\u00a0closed. The excuse is the same as the one given for the cable car in Complexo do Alem\u00e3o<\/a>: maintenance works. The same deadline is given: indefinite. This means that residents take one look at the closed doors of the cable car stations and go back to using alternative means of transport, or climbing the steep slopes to get to and from their houses.<\/p>\n

The construction of the Provid\u00eancia cable car cost approximately R$75 million in public money. The result of the project is negligence<\/a> which ended up turning the cable car into a white elephant. So much money wasted, local history buried<\/a> by construction works, residents\u2019 energies worn down\u2026 Was all this in vain?<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no doubt about who lost out the most with this project: the residents of Morro da Provid\u00eancia. The authorities are silent on the matter, and so is the mainstream media. Nobody knows, nobody saw anything, nobody has any answers to all the many people affected by this transport. Now we\u2019re in 2017; this year the favela celebrates its 120th birthday. How long will favela residents have to live with the failure of the authorities<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas For the original article by Karine Ferreira\u00a0in Portuguese\u00a0published by Ag\u00eancia de Not\u00edcias da Favela\u00a0click here. Times are tough in Morro da Provid\u00eancia, the oldest favela in Brazil. Just like in Complexo […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":34710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2315,1288,1328,335,1330],"tags":[150,1261,32,272,11,182,148,144,409,200],"writer":[2340],"translator":[1401],"illustrator":[],"photographer":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-legacywatch","8":"category-highlight","9":"category-by-community-contributors","10":"category-policies","11":"category-translation","12":"tag-cable-car","13":"tag-central-rio","14":"tag-complexo-do-alemao","15":"tag-mayor-eduardo-paes","16":"tag-forced-evictions","17":"tag-government-neglect","18":"tag-port-region","19":"tag-morro-da-providencia","20":"tag-public-transportation","21":"tag-transportation","22":"writer-karine-ferreira","23":"translator-sarah-jacobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34709"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwriter&post=34709"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftranslator&post=34709"},{"taxonomy":"illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fillustrator&post=34709"},{"taxonomy":"photographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fphotographer&post=34709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}