FREIRE, W. S.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5379412369500497; FREIRE, Wanderson da Silva.
Resumo:
After the end of the services carried out by the eletric tram and buses of Pernambuco
Autoviária in 1955, Recife would depend on several bus companies for public transport
in the city. Many of them with reduced fleet or only one vehicle, made the population
suffer with equipment in precarious condition, delays, lack of change and absence of
care in certain neighborhoods. Moreover, with the increase of automobiles in the streets,
the recifense, ran daily the risk of being another victim of accidents, collisions and
roadkill. This scenario was called by the periodicals of the time as the “Battle of
Recife”. The circulation of people, whether on foot or by collectives, implied problems
almost every day. In this context, this work aims to investigate the traffic and collective
transport in Recife between 1953, when there is a plan for the deployment of the new
public transport service in the city, through the trollebus (electric buses), until 1960,
when they are inaugurated. Through research in newspapers, magazines, technical
reports, maps and images in dialogue with the bibliography related to the theme, the
goal is to analyze, among the spatial/temporal cutout, complaints of the population,
strikes of entrepreneurs because of the increase of passages and the performance of the
prefecture trying to solve traffic problems and the transportation system of the time.
