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Subterráneo de Buenos Aires: Owner: Subterráneos de Buenos Aires S.E. (government corporation) Locale: Buenos Aires: Transit type: Rapid transit: Number of lines: 7 [1] Number of stations: 104: Daily ridership: 1.38 million (2018) [2] Website: City of Buenos Aires: Operation; Began operation: 1 December 1913; 111 years ago () Operator(s ...
The Buenos Aires Underground (Subterráneo de Buenos Aires-locally known as Subte) is a metro system that serves the city of Buenos Aires, the network was inaugurated in 1913 by the Anglo-Argentine Tramways Company, being the first of its kind in Latin America and in the entire Southern Hemisphere and Spanish speaking world. [127]
During the first decade of the 20th century in Buenos Aires, road traffic had sharply increased due to a growing population. In 1903 the city had 895,381 inhabitants and there were 4,791 horse-drawn carriages and 60 cars, while by 1913 there were 1,457,885 people, with 6,211 carriages and 7,438 automobiles.
In 1912 the Congress of Argentina enacted Law 8,870 to construct a line that would unite the Correo Central (Central Post Office) and the intersection of Triunvirato and Elcano streets, and meet with the tracks of the Buenos Aires Central Railroad (Ferrocarril Central de Buenos Aires or FCCBA), which belonged to the same business group, through an 8.7 km (5.4 mi) tunnel.
The most common English name of the metro system (including a link to the article for that system). Year opened Map of all the world's metro systems The year the metro system was opened for commercial service at metro standards. In other words, parts of the system may be older, but as parts of a former light rail or commuter rail network, so ...
As of 2015, Buenos Aires is the only Argentine city with an underground metro system, nonetheless there is a project to build a system in the city of Córdoba (Córdoba Metro) making it the second underground system in Argentina. [12] The Buenos Aires Underground (Subterráneo de Buenos Aires) has currently six lines, each labelled with a ...
The Regional Express Network (Spanish: Red de Expresos Regionales) was a planned commuter network system in Buenos Aires, which consisted in an underground connection among the 3 mainline railway stations of the city: Retiro, Constitucion and Once, in the north, south and west respectively.
It is thus an important artery in Buenos Aires' transport system. At the same time, it is also the shortest line in both terms of length and number of stations. It was the third line of the network to provide rail services to the public, after Line A and Line B. Up until 2007 with the opening of line H, it was the only line in the system ...