BUENOS AIRES, April 16 (Xinhua) -- On April 5-19, Buenos Aires residents can experience the Argentine capital's underground, visiting places that are usually inaccessible, such as the city's historic subway.

This is thanks to an initiative organized by Buenos Aires' undersecretary of Communication and Citizen Participation and the company Subterraneos de Buenos Aires (Sbase).

During the early hours of the morning, residents can take a 2-km tour of the E line between the Catalinas and Retiro stops.

"We bring ... residents to places where they cannot usually go, so that they can have an experience. Now we have the night experiences, with residents going through the E line tunnel, and it was great because they can see what the job is like," said Liz Garnica, member of the Citizen Participation team of the Argentine capital.

"On a day-to-day basis, you see all the movement, take the subway as you normally do, but behind all that, at night, people work so that all of this is impeccable and neat," she said, adding that the residents "can see the work that is done in different areas, both in transport as well as in public spaces, health, and culture."

During the tour of the Buenos Aires subway tunnels, visitors can learn about construction methodology and ongoing projects as well as about the works by female Argentinean artists that decorate the stations.

Engineer Marcelo Garibaldi, a Sbase director, told Xinhua that he has worked for many years on the extension of the capital's metro lines and that the section that connects the Bolivar and Retiro stations, inaugurated in June 2019, is the latest extension opened by the city government.

"It is very good to see the reaction of the residents to be able to tour these projects at night. It is what they cannot do during normal hours because the trains are running," he said.

Garibaldi offered a review of the civil projects and explained "all the systems, the electromechanical specialties, architecture, technological systems and the track structure, of all the specialties that make up this project."

"It is important that people not only have the experience sitting in the train car, but can walk along the tracks and go through the tunnels and learn about the different technology used for their construction and everything that makes up the operating system of the subway," he said.

The Buenos Aires subway was opened in 1913, making it the oldest in Latin America. Enditem

Related

Go to Forum >>0 Comment(s)