Do you like trucks? Learn that the residents of Sao Paulo do not. And not only are the residents, politicians seem don’t as well, that is why a law was created, banning them from “expanding city centre”, an area with 100 square kilometers. Want to know why the residents of Sao Paulo hate trucks and why this decision was taken? Let’s go!

Sao Paulo is the financial centre of the country, representing 15% of GDP, is the 19 th richest city on the planet and is the sixth largest metropolitan region of the planet. One reflection of this is the size of the fleet of vehicles that the city has approximately 6 million (it is estimated that two million more moved by the city irregularly). According to DETRAN (responsible department for monitoring the traffic), one thousand new cars arrives the streets everyday. This fact is due to the economic growth by which the country is passing.

Only with this, is to imagine that the city has a transit from hell, but there is more. The metropolitan region of Sao Paulo is an area of transposition of charges for various destinations, is the next to the most important port in the country and is the largest logistic center of South America. Thousands of trucks circulating the city daily, 40% of them is from other states. Besides the pollution they cause, are the vehicles that are more involved in accidents.

The records of traffic congestion have been broken almost weekly. When it’s rush hour, the city literally stops, having 200 km of traffic congestion. One of the fames that the residents of Sao Paulo have is to be stressed, but wouldn’t you be stressed if you were obliged to face such traffic daily to work or study?

The State Government is currently investing $ 3 billion for new lines of train and subway. The only problem is that there is impossible to build 120 km of new lines of train and subway in the short term. And the losses caused by the traffic are affecting the national economy, in addition to the mental health of the residents.

Can you understand now why the residents of the city hate the trucks and mayor took that decision? To try to alliviate the chaotic situation in which city is.

Of course, if they could, the residents of Sao Paulo would do like the 50 thousand millionaires who live in there: they circulate in the city through helicopters. São Paulo has the second largest fleet in the world. But this is not an option, is it?