Barrancas metro station

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Barrancas
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Santiago Metro station
Estacion Barrancas.jpg
Platform, Barrancas metro station
General information
LocationTeniente Cruz Avenue / General Bonilla Avenue
Coordinates 33°27′10.48″S70°44′21.88″W / 33.4529111°S 70.7394111°W / -33.4529111; -70.7394111
Line(s) Santiago de Chile L5.svg Line 5
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Connections Transantiago buses
Construction
AccessibleYes
History
OpenedFebruary 3, 2011 [1]
Services
Preceding station Santiago Metro Following station
Laguna Sur Line 5 Pudahuel

Barrancas is an underground metro station on Line 5 of the Santiago Metro network in Santiago, Chile. It is located underneath the junction of Teniente Cruz Avenue and General Bonilla Avenue on the border of the communes of Pudahuel and Lo Prado, between Laguna Sur station (1140 meters away) and Pudahuel station (990 meters away). It also lies parallel to the Route 68 highway which connects Santiago with Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, and the highway crosses over the underground metro line. [2] The station has disabled access. [3]

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The station was opened on 3 February 2011 as part of the extension of the line from Pudahuel to Plaza de Maipú. [4] [5]

View from the platform Estacion Barrancas 2.jpg
View from the platform

Etymology

The station was named after the old name of this part of the city, Barrancas, which covered the nowadays communes of Pudahuel, Lo Prado, Cerro Navia and Quinta Normal during the 1960s. While the Line 5 extension was being built, Barrancas was known as “General Bonilla” station due to its location on General Bonilla Avenue, itself named after Chilean general Óscar Bonilla.

History

In 2005, the Chilean president Ricardo Lagos announced the extension of Metro Line 5 as far as Maipú. After years of cancelled plans to extend the Metro network to Maipú, the use of Line 5 was unexpected because the Line 1 Metro stations Pajaritos station or Las Rejas station had historically received the bulk of commuters travelling up from Maipú.

Work on the project began in 2006, with the structural work completed in 2010. On October 5, 2010, the first train passed along the tracks of Barrancas station. The station was finally inaugurated on February 3, 2011, along with the other stations between Barrancas and Plaza de Maipú station.

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