Lima (Buenos Aires Metro)

The Lima Metro Station is a station on line A of the Subterráneos de Buenos Aires and is part of the section Plaza de Mayo - Plaza Miserere, which was opened as the first of the network on 1 December 1913. The metro station is located at the intersection of Avenida de Mayo and the eponymous Calle Lima, the flanking side street of Avenida 9 de Julio. Named the road as the train station to the capital of Peru. About pedestrian tunnel is a transit traffic on Avenida de Mayo Metro Station, on line C.

History

The Lima Metro Station was taken in conjunction with the section between the Plaza de Mayo and Plaza Miserere on 1 December 1913 in operation. This station also received the usual side platforms, the station furniture a light gray paint. The walls are tiled in white.

Early 1930, work began on a subway line under the Avenida 9 de Julio by the Compañía Hispano Argentina de Obras Públicas y Finanzas ( CHADOPyF ), which could be completed in 1934 with the opening of the line. A direct, underground transition between Lima and Avenida de Mayo subway stations has long been absent. In the first Five -Year Plan, 1946, the Government of Juan Domingo Perón, construction began for a pedestrian tunnel between the two stations. But only with the nationalization of the entire subway network and the transfer to the municipal transport company " Corporación de Transportes de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires ", the transition north of the tunnel, the line was taken on June 1, 1956 in A mode.

In order to improve passenger flows between the two lines, a second, larger tunnel was opened south of the underground tunnels of the line A on May 4, 1961.

In 1997, the Metro Station as a National Historic Monument ( monument histórico nacional ) was classified.

Connection

At the Metro station has the transit traffic to numerous buses ( colectivos ) and the line C (U - train station Avenida de Mayo ).