Rodovia Ayrton Senna
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Rodovia Ayrton Senna da Silva (officially designated SP-070 and formely named Rodovia dos Trabalhadores (Worker's Highway), is a highway in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
The highway begins in the Eastern region of city of São Paulo and ends at the county of Guararema, merging with Rodovia Presidente Dutra.
The cities served by Rodovia Ayrton Senna are Guarulhos, Itaquaquecetuba, Moji das Cruzes and Guararema. It continues in the same direction into Rodovia Carvalho Pinto, which has the same SP-070 designation, in parallel with Dutra Highway.
Near São Paulo, special highway engineering techniques had to be used, in order to cross the natural swamp area by the Tietê River without damaging the nearby ecosystem. Its main traffic nowadays is between São Paulo and the Guarulhos International Airport (also known as Cumbica Airport).
The highway is named in honour of the deceased Formula 1 Brazilian pilot Ayrton Senna.
It is managed and maintained by DERSA, a state-owned company, but it is a toll road.
