Drive around the city of 20 million

São Paulo grew quickly from the 1940s to the 1980s and many roads and buildings were constructed without major planning. As a result, heavy traffic is common in the main avenues of the city, and traffic jams are relatively common in its larger highways. The main means of commuting into the city is by car and by bus. An effective way of avoiding heavy vehicles traffic in the city, such as buses and trucks that crossed the city for other destinations, was planned by ex-governor Mário Covas as a ring of road that circles the city, called Rodoanel Mario Covas, and is currently beeing built by DERSA.

São Paulo has the highest per capita helicopter ownership in the developing world and now rivals Tokyo and New York as the world's leading helicopter user. The owners are an elite wealthy class who take advantage of around one hundred helipads and heliports to conveniently avoid heavy traffic and to rise above contact with the more dangerous aspects of urban life.

The city has 60.5 km of underground railway systems (34.6 km fully underground) (the São Paulo Metro, locally known as the Metrô), with 4 lines in operation and 57 stations (33 underground), complemented by another 270 km of CPTM (Companhia de Trens Metropolitanos, or "Company of Metropolitan Trains") railways. Both CPTM and the underground railway lines carry some 3.5 million people on an average weekday, and a few new underground lines to be constructed are expected to add another million people to the system within the next five years. All the main projects from the São Paulo railway and underground system for the next 10 years can be found on the Portuguese pages of the Metrô and CPTM. The projects are said to expand the system from the current 330 km to more than 500 km on the next 10 years.

In some parts of the city, the honking horns of bottlenecks and sirens of police vehicles weaving through traffic is joined by the almost incessant sound of helicopters whizzing by. The São Paulo Helicopter Pilots Association says about 100 helicopters fly above the city at any given time during the day. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

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[kamykovas]

Isso eh do tempo em que ainda tinha outdoor!

[fanagot]

Be careful. Do not stop in the middle of a road when your traffic lights are green

[MrAlexdesousa]

Big City..

[Danielroda]

Só tem q tomar cuidado para não fechar o corredor e ter o retrovisor arrancado por algum motoqueiro

[pchacki]

I will admit I drove in Sao Paulo for a few months this year and it has made me a better driver!! At first its scary and once you get used to it and learn the rules of the road there it is a lot of fun...avoiding giant pot holes, huge unmarked speed bumps, the traffic and the crazy moto boys clipping your mirrors, runnig red lights at night to avoid a possible car jack......Ya New York or LA is nothin to worry about LOL

[computador2]

the city does not have 20 million people. the whole metro area has

[quatlen]

Como peligroso esta São paulo?

[nickfl1980]

If you can drive in Sao Paulo, you will be fine in NY or in L.A., and superfine in Miami, what is a childsplay for the Paulistas. I agree, Mexico is worse, Bombay worser, Shanghai, the worst. Give me Sao Paulo..better organized.

[kngzmexican]

Mexico city is a million times worse lol .