A batalha diária no Recife: o trânsito e o transporte coletivo na cidade 1953-1960.

Abstract

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.