Rodovia Presidente Dutra

Rodovia Presidente Dutra
Border between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo states. The sign reads "Welcome to São Paulo".
Route information
Maintained by CCR NovaDutra (since 1996)
Length:	402 km (250 mi)
Existed:	1951 (duplication made to a Dual carriageway in 1967) – present
Major junctions
East end:	Avenida Brasil in Vista Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
	RJ-071 Linha Vermelha RJ-085 Av. Automóvel Clube RJ-105 (access to Nova Iguaçu and Belford Roxo) RJ-093 (access to Engenheiro Pedreira, district of Japeri) RJ-125 (access to Japeri, Miguel Pereira and Paty do Alferes) BR-493 Arco Metropolitano do Rio de Janeiro RJ-127 (access to Paracambi and Eng. Paulo de Frontin) BR-465 former Rodovia Rio-São Paulo RJ-145 (access to Piraí, Barra do Piraí and Valença) BR-393 Lúcio Meira RJ-155 (access to Angra dos Reis) BR-354 Resende-Caxambu SP-068 Rodovia dos Tropeiros BR-459 Lorena-Poços de Caldas SP-171 former Estrada Real (access to Paraty) SP-125 Oswaldo Cruz (access to Ubatuba) SP-070 Carvalho Pinto SP-123 Floriano R. Pinheiro (access to Campos do Jordão) SP-050 Rodovia Monteiro Lobato SP-099 Rodovia dos Tamoios (access to Caraguatatuba) SP-065 D. Pedro I (access to Campinas) SP-070 Ayrton Senna SP-088 Mogi-Dutra SP-021 Rodoanel Mário Covas SP-019 Hélio Smidt BR-381 Fernão Dias
West end:	Marginal Tietê in Vila Maria, São Paulo, SP
Highway system
Highways in Brazil

The Rodovia Presidente Dutra, (BR-116 – or SP-060 in the state of São Paulo), colloquially known as Via Dutra is a federal highway which runs through the eastern part of the state of São Paulo and southwestern region of the state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the part of BR-116 connecting the city of São Paulo to the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Major cities connected by this part of BR-116 are the city of São Paulo, Jacareí, São José dos Campos, Taubaté, Pindamonhangaba, Guaratinguetá, Resende, Barra Mansa, Volta Redonda and the city of Rio de Janeiro.

It covers a total distance of 402 kilometres (250 mi), starting at the Trevo das Margaridas in Rio de Janeiro and ending at the junction with Marginal Tietê in São Paulo. It merges with Rodovia Ayrton Senna in the county of Guararema and has junctions with Rodovia Fernão Dias, BR-354 and BR-459. The highway largely follows the Paraíba do Sul river valley.

Via Dutra is considered the most important Brazilian highway since it connects the two biggest and most important cities of Brazil and runs through one of the richest regions of the country, the Paraíba Valley. It is also the most important connection between the Southern Region and the Northeast Region.

History

The first road between the city of São Paulo and the city of Rio de Janeiro was built by the Washington Luis government and inaugurated on May 5, 1928.

At the end of the 1940s industrialization and the necessity of a faster, safer and more efficient and modern road connection of the two biggest Brazilian cities led to the construction of the Rodovia Presidente Dutra as it is known today. It was inaugurated on January 19, 1951 by the President Eurico Gaspar Dutra and called BR-2. It was a two-lane road with exception of the stretches between São Paulo and Guarulhos and in the Baixada Fluminense where it was a four-lane dual carriageway.

In the 1960s it had various stretches converted to four-lane divided road. In 1967 it was fully upgraded to four-lane highway status.

In the 1970s traffic has been eased on the Via Dutra due to the construction of the Rodovia dos Trabalhadores, now called Rodovia Ayrton Senna and its part built in the 1990s called Rodovia Governador Carvalho Pinto leading up to Taubaté.

The highway is managed and maintained by a state concession to the private company NovaDutra S/A since March 1996, and therefore is a toll road. From that transfer of ownership up to today it has largely improved in road quality and safety.

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NovaDutra S/A

Highways of São Paulo

Highways	008 010 015 017 019 021 023 029 031 036 039 041 042 043 046 048 050 052 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 068 070 071 073 075 077 079 081 083 085 088 091 092 095 097 098 099 101 102 103 105 107 113 121 122 123 125 127 129 131 132 133 135 139 141 143 147 148 150 151 153 157 160 165 167 171 176 181 183 189 191 193 197 201 207 209 211 214 215 216 221 222 225 226 228 230 234 245 247 249 250 251 252 253 255 257 258 259 261 264 266 267 268 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 278 280 281 284 287 291 293 294 300 303 304 305 306 308 310 312 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 330 331 332 333 334 336 338 340 342 344 345 346 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 360 373 375 377 379 381 383 385 387 413 419 421 423 425 427 437 457 461 463 473 479 483 487 501 527 541 543 557 561 563 595 613

Rodovias	Anchieta Anhangüera Bandeirantes Washington Luís Marechal Rondon Castelo Branco Raposo Tavares Imigrantes Ayrton Senna D. Pedro I Adhemar de Barros José Ermírio de Moraes Luís Augusto de Oliveira Dr. Paulo Lauro Deputado Vicente Botta Thales de Lorena Peixoto Júnior Brigadeiro Faria Lima Tamoios Oswaldo Cruz Mogi-Bertioga Carvalho Pinto Manuel da Nóbrega Piaçagüera-Guarujá João Mellão Régis Bittencourt Fernão Dias Presidente Dutra Estrada da Rhodia Transbrasiliana Rodoanel

Main highways of the city of São Paulo

Rodovias	Anchieta Anhangüera Raposo Tavares Dutra Fernão Dias Régis Bittencourt Imigrantes Bandeirantes Castelo Branco Ayrton Senna Rodoanel

Expressways	Marginal Tietê Marginal Pinheiros Norte-Sul Leste-Oeste Elevado Costa e Silva

Surface streets	Paulista Avenue Professor Luís Inácio Anhaia Melo Avenue Aricanduva Avenue Bandeirantes Avenue Estado Avenue Salim Farah Maluf Avenue Corredor Tiquatira Radial Leste Professor Francisco Morato Avenue Jornalista Roberto Marinho Avenue Complexo Viário Jacu Pêssego Cupecê Avenue Marechal Tito Avenue Engenheiro Luís Carlos Berrini Avenue Brigadeiro Faria Lima Avenue Rua Oscar Freire

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Rodovia Presidente Dutra

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