Can you imagine Rio de Janeiro with no BRT corridors (Transoeste, Transcarioca and Transolimpica) and no LRV lines? Or without Porto Maravilha, the Museum of Tomorrow, the Museum of Art of Rio and the Rio Operations Center (COR)? Without the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, none of this would have become a reality.

A significant number of public facilities and infrastructure projects were made possible by the Games. They now positively impact the lives of Cariocas, and many might never have come to fruition without the momentum generated by the event.

Since the beginning of the project, Rio City Hall has strived to secure a lasting legacy for the city and its people. The preparations for hosting the event were leveraged to accelerate long-awaited changes, resulting in significant quality of life enhancements for the people.

The Olympic and Paralympic Games represented a milestone in the city's recent history. In addition to putting Rio in the global spotlight, the Games paved the way for significant transformations in infrastructure, services, transportation, and education.

In this special report, we invite you to revisit or discover the Olympic legacy that has transformed — and continues to transform — our Rio de Janeiro.

In addition to planning and building facilities to provide better quality of life for the Cariocas, Rio's Olympic project adopted the nomadic architecture in several arenas. This meant that, after the Games, these facilities would have new uses for the people.

This construction concept foresees the reuse of sports facilities to transform them into other public facilities, even in other areas within the city. A prime example is the Future Arena, which originally staged Olympic handball and Paralympic goalball. Following the conclusion of these competitions, the arena's infrastructure was repurposed to build four schools following the GET ( Technological Education School ) model, with the capacity to accommodate a total of 1,700 students.

All four units are located in the West Zone of the city (Santa Cruz, Bangu, Campo Grande, and Rio das Pedras), where other important facilities were built and are now part of the Olympic legacy.

Beyond the mentioned facilities, a host of other projects form part of the legacy. These initiatives, although not directly linked to the sporting events, took advantage of the Olympic opportunity to come to fruition. Infrastructure endeavors, primarily focused on mobility and urban development, that were executed or accelerated because Rio hosted the Games.

The expansion of the high-capacity transportation network is one of the most significant transformations. The goal was to create a new model of urban mobility in which the city was completely interconnected, facilitating and speeding up travel and breaking old geographical and social barriers.

To achieve this, investments were made in projects such as the Transoeste, Transcarioca, and Transolímpica BRT lines, the LRV, and more recently, the Gentileza Terminal. These works boosted transportation in the city, reducing distances and improving the quality of life for thousands of cariocas, especially in the North and West zones.

Next, you will learn more about the Olympic Legacy mobility projects that have expedited and facilitated how Cariocas get around Rio.

In the next phase of Rio de Janeiro City Hall's ongoing commitment to preserving and remembering the Olympic legacy, totems, plaques, and Olympic seals will be installed in various spaces and buildings throughout the city.

By celebrating the sites that underwent significant transformation or benefited from the Games, we reinforce the community's sense of unity and belonging, simultaneously promoting tourism and raising awareness about the event's significance for our present and future.

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