Campo Grande (Lisbon Metro)

Campo Grande is a metro station Linha Amarela ( Yellow Line ) and the Linha Verde (Green Line ) of the Lisbon Metro, the underground network of the Portuguese capital. The station is located at the intersection of the second Lisbon ring road (2 ° circular Avenida General Norto de Matos ) with the street Avenida Padre Cruz in the borough Lumiar. Campo Grande is one of the main transport hubs outside of downtown Lisbon ( Baixa pombalina ), is also located next to the railway station, Estádio José Alvalade Football Club Sporting Lisbon. The neighboring stations of the station are Quinta das Conchas, Telheiras, Cidade Universitaria and Alvalade. The station went into operation on 1 April 1993. The eponymous Campo Grande Park is located half a kilometer to the south.

History

While the business of life, and hence the center of Lisbon always was in previous centuries near the Tagus at Praça do Comércio, it fell especially after the Second World War. In the fifties and sixties, hence the trade focus shifted more and more towards the north. For this reason, the traffic changed, so that the north-south connections are more and more in demand, but the tram could not meet the demand alone. A first remedy for this managed the opening of the first Lisbon metro line (now part of the blue and yellow line) between Sete Rios Entre Campos and Restauradores. By 1972, an additional route came up after Alvalade do so.

After the city of Lisbon, together with the operating company Metropolitano de Lisboa, EP 1990 approved a development plan for the next decade, should the two route branches, which (since 1972 ) and Cidade Universitaria ended in Alvalade (since 1988), are connected at the traffic junction Campo Grande. The construction work for this started as early as 1990, in addition to the construction of the station was the construction of a second operating workshop ( " Parque de Material de Oficina Calvanas e " ) east of the future station needed. By 1993, construction was completed. With the opening of the railway station and the maintenance workshop on April 1, 1993, the above-ground Metro Station Metro Lisbon went into operation.

The planning of the station with two side platforms and a central platform took Ezequiel Nicolau, for the design of the station Eduardo Nery was responsible. Nery voted for the first above-ground subway station in Lisbon, the traditional azulejos in Portugal, which were mounted traditionally, especially in older, wealthy homes often in the entrance area ( figuras de convite ). Nery tried in a balancing act between modernity and tradition, and let tiling most of the walls in the entrance area of the station with the azulejos from the 18th century. In addition to the Azulejos Nery also used different design details in order to reduce the massive impression of the station on the environment.

With the opening, there was a problem, because now two of the three branches of the entire line metro network met, which previously had no line numbers. For this reason, the operating company prepared the basis for the subsequent line numbers by colors and symbols. Thus, the section between Campo Grande and Rotunda (now Marquês do Pombal ) about Entre Campos in Linha Amarela ( Yellow Line ) was renamed in 1995, the remaining portion was initially as Linha Azul (blue line ) is obtained. With the held in 1998 separation of the Linha Azul (blue line) in turn a western route section ( Pontinha - Restauradores continue Linha Azul ) and on into eastern (Campo Grande- Martim Moniz, now Linha Verde ) held since only the green line station Campo Grande. Since 1999, blue and green line on the newly built subway station Baixa -Chiado meet.

Since 2002, the station for the Green Line was no longer terminal, as the trains since a station drove up to Telheiras station. The same thing happened in 2004 for the yellow line, since this runs across the community Lumiar up on the Lisbon city limits in the suburb Odivelas.

The station is a major transportation hub; so here hold a large number of bus companies ( Barraqueiro Oeste, Boa Viagem, Barraqueiro, Isidoro Duarte, Mafrense, Ribatejana, Rodoviária de Lisboa, Rodoviária do Tejo, Transportes Sul do Tejo, Carris ), also since 1956, is already the stadium of Sporting Lisbon next to it. However, the station has been no elevators.

Course

At the subway station connecting flights to the bus lines of the Carris and the bus companies Barraqueiro Oeste, Boa Viagem, Barraqueiro, Isidoro Duarte, Mafrense, Ribatejana, Rodoviária de Lisboa, Transportes Sul Rodoviária do Tejo and do Tejo.