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      Osório: Rio Metro Line 4 is 75% complete.

      Rio 247 - The Rio de Janeiro State Secretary of Transportation, Carlos Roberto Osório, said that the construction of Metro Line 4 to Barra da Tijuca is 75% complete; the official guaranteed that the work will be finished more than a month ahead of schedule for the Rio 2016 Olympics and that they are 40 days ahead of schedule; according to him, passenger testing will begin on June 1st of next year, outside of peak hours, and a month later the service will be available to the public.

      Rio 247 - The Rio de Janeiro State Secretary of Transportation, Carlos Roberto Osório, said that the construction of Line 4 of the Rio metro to Barra is 75% complete; the official guaranteed that the work will be finished more than a month ahead of schedule for Rio 2016 and that they are 40 days ahead of schedule; according to him, passenger testing will begin on June 1st of next year, outside of peak hours, and a month later the project will be available to the entire population (Photo: Leonardo Lucena).

      Rio 247 - The Rio de Janeiro State Secretary of Transportation, Carlos Roberto Osório, said that the construction of Metro Line 4 to Barra da Tijuca is 75% complete. He guaranteed that the project will be finished more than a month ahead of schedule for the Rio 2016 Olympics and is 40 days ahead of schedule.

      In an interview with RJTV, Osório stated that passenger testing will begin on June 1st of next year, outside of peak hours. According to him, the facility will be available to the entire population a month later.

      "The Line 4 Metro project is the largest infrastructure project currently underway in Brazil. It spans 16 km, will benefit 300 passengers, and the project is on schedule. Seventy-five percent of the work is complete—the excavation from Barra to Gávea is finished, and now the work involves the 'Tatuzão' (tunnel boring machine). The 'Tatuzão' is in Jardim de Alah, will reach Antero de Quintal in October, and by the end of the year we will connect the two tunnels," said the secretary.