Alvalade (Lisbon Metro)

Alvalade is a metro station Linha Verde the Lisbon Metro, the underground network of the Portuguese capital. The station is located in the municipality of Lisbon Alvalade beneath the square Praça de Alvalade. The neighboring stations are Campo Grande and Roma. The station went on 18 June 1972 in operation.

History

The opening of the subway station Alvalade in connection with the construction of the line Anjos - Alvalade placed the completion of the so-called second stage of the Lisbon Metro network dar. With this the backbone of the network was consisting of a track with two branches to Sete Rios Entre Campos within thirteen years completed ( 1959-1972 ). Simultaneously with the opening of the line put the city council or the Carris shut the parallel tram line.

The opening of the railway station Alvalade was held on 18 June 1972. The station is based on a design by Portuguese architect Dinis Gomes, who had designed a central platform and a side platform for this instead of the usual two side platforms, as this was conceived at this time the long term as an endpoint. Regarding the length of the platforms was remembered on previous experience and built this from the beginning with a length of 70 meters and thus for four-car trains suitable. The artistic design also took over at this station Maria Keil, who was responsible for almost all of the first Lisbon Metro stations. For Alvalade they chose different motives lilies with white and violet colors on brown ground, the banishing them to the best azulejos.

For 21 years Alvalade was also the final destination of the Lisbon Metro network in the Northeast. Only by the approved expansion plan of the Lisbon Metro in 1990 ( Plano de Expansão da Rede 1999) it was clear that this would not long remain so. Back in 1993, extended the Metropolitano de Lisboa, EP the route of Alvalade a stop to major transport nodes Campo Grande, where, among other things, the new maintenance workshop Calvanas arose.

Between 1995 and 1998, was created by the separation of the line branches Colégio Militar / Luz- Restauradores and Campo Grande Rossio the Blue ( Linha Azul ) and the Green Line ( Linha Verde). Thus, the green line took over the traffic on the route Campo Grande- Alvalade Rossio respectively from 1998 to Baixa -Chiado and Cais do Sodré.

While almost all other 40-meter long platforms of the Lisbon Metro were extended in the seventies and eighties to 105 meters, it remained at railway stations on the route between Alvalade and Rossio initially in the previous 70 meters. With the increasing numbers of passengers and also football fans better be able to bring to the newly opened stadium of the football club Sporting Lisbon at the Campo Grande station, the operator of the platforms of the stations along the Linha Verde decided to extend in the context of a general renovation of 105 meters to also there to be able to use six-car trains. The renovation of the station Alvalade was 2007/2008 instead, which in addition to the platform extension and refurbishment, generally, the platform walls have been redesigned. The artist Bela Silva chose for remodeling the themes Animals and women and brought numerous monkeys, owls and various female figures on the platform walls. In connection with the renovation of the station also received three lifts, each of the two platforms to the middle floor and the middle floor to street level.

Course

At the subway station connecting flights to the bus lines of the Carris.