Portal Eldorado (TransMilenio)
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| Location | Av.Calle 26 with Av.Carrera 86 and Transversal 93 Fontibón and Engativá Colombia | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 30 June 2012 | ||||||||||
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The Portal Eldorado, inaugurated in 2012, is one of the terminal stations of TransMilenio, the bus rapid transit system of Bogotá, Colombia.
Location
[edit]The Portal Eldorado is located in the west of the city, on the Avenue El Dorado between the Avenue Ciudad de Cali and the transverse 93. It has accesses by pedestrian bridges located on These two ways.
It caters directly to the neighborhoods Santa Cecilia, Los Álamos and its surroundings. Nearby are the El Dorado International Airport, the Aloft Bogota Airport hotel, the Movich Buró 26 hotel, the Habiltel hotel, the main headquarters of Carvajal SA, the GlaxoSmithKline headquarters in Colombia, the Hipercentro warehouse Corona Dorado and Connecta business center, headquarters of several multinationals and visa offices for the embassies of Australia and the United States.
Etymology
[edit]The Portal receives its name being the head station of the line Calle 26, and being located on the road axis of the same name. The Eldorado Avenue was baptized of this form since for a long time it was believed that the legend of Eldorado had its source in the muiscas rites of the lagoon of Guatavita, located about 40 kilometers from the city.
Story
[edit]This station is part of Phase III of the TransMilenio system that began to be built in late 2009 and, after several delays related to corruption cases, began operations on Saturday 30 June 2012.
Current trunk services
[edit]| Type | Northern Routes | Southern Routes | Ending Routes | Eastern Route | Frequency | |||||||
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| All days |
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1 | Every FIVE minutes | |||||||||
| Express Monday through Saturday All day |
B16 |
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Every two minutes | ||||||||
| Express Monday through Friday All day |
B16 |
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Every two minutes | |||||||||
| Express Sundays and holidays |
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Every 3–4 minutes |
Dual services
[edit]| Kind | Routes to the North | Routes to the South |
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| Dual Monday to Sunday all day |
M86 | K86 |
Feeding services
[edit]To each side of the portal are located the stops of the feeder routes, which began to operate also on 30 June 2012 [2]
- Platform North (Engativá)
- 16.1 circular to the neighborhood Tierra Grata.
- 16.2 circular to the sector of Engativá Center.
- 16.3 to the sector of Avenida Eldorado - Álamos.
- 16.4 circular to the El Muelle neighborhood.
- 16.5 circular to Villa Amalia neighborhood.
- 16.6 to the La Faena neighborhood.
- 16.14 to the Eldorado Airport.
Platform South (Fontibón)
- 16.7 to the La Estancia neighborhood.
- 16.8 to the free zone sector.
- 16.9 circular to the sector of Fontibon Center.
- 16.10 to the Villemar district.
- 16.13 to the sector of Avenida Cali - Hayuelos.
Complementary services
[edit]The following complementary route also works:
- 16.12 to the neighborhood Belén.
Circular Routes
[edit]From 8 August 2016 a circular route of the SITP enters the portal:
- TC06 circular to the El Refugio neighborhood.
References
[edit]- ^ "Nuevos servicios Fase III". Transmilenio.gov.co (in Spanish). Archived from the original (JPG) on November 29, 2012. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
- ^ "TransMilenio Fase III Nuevas rutas alimentadoras" (PDF). Transmilenio.gov.co (in Spanish). Retrieved June 30, 2012.[permanent dead link]
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External links
[edit]- TransMilenio
- Surumbo.com Official TransMilenio interactive mapping system