Santiago Metro station | ||||||||||||||||
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Location | Providencia Avenue / Tobalaba Avenue | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 33°25′05″S70°36′06″W / 33.41806°S 70.60167°W | |||||||||||||||
Line(s) | Line 1 Line 4 | |||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms at each line | |||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 per line | |||||||||||||||
Connections | Transantiago buses | |||||||||||||||
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Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||||||
Opened | August 31, 1980 ( ) November 30, 2005 ( ) [1] | |||||||||||||||
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Tobalaba is a station on the Santiago Metro in Chile, the northern terminus of Line 4 and the closest station to the Costanera Center.
The Line 1 station was opened on 22 August 1980 as part of the extension of the line from Salvador to Escuela Militar. [2] It became an interchange station between Line 1 and Line 4 on 30 November 2005, when the section of Line 4 between Tobalaba and Grecia was opened, [2] and the appearance of the station was altered.
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