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Buenos Aires has one of the world’s oldest subway systems, and among Latin America’s largest: One that has seen trains from Japan and Spain operate on it! Check out our latest video to learn more about Subte.
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23 Comments
IT'S FINALLY HEREEEE!! I don't know what else can I say after watching this video evolve from concept to reality. I'm glad I was able to help you out with this one. Hopefully we can collaborate in another future project!
Here's some context for some of the names mentioned here: General San Martín is José de San Martín, who's an Argentine regarded as the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru as he was the main leader of the southern and central parts of South America's successful struggle for independence from the Spanish. Belgrano refers to Manuel Belgrano, who not only participated in the struggle for independence as well, but also designed what became the flag of Argentina. Plaza de Mayo was named in honor of the 1810 May Revolution, which sparked the war for independence when the Primera Junta seized the government, ousted the Spanish Viceroy, and launched a series of military expeditions.
A tip for the future: In the Rio de la Plata region (as in not just Argentina but also Uruguay), they pronounce "ll" as "zh" instead of as a y. So Caballito at 4:38 is pronounced "Cabazhito". This pronunciation of ll and y as sh is actually a linguistic phenomenon called yeismo rehilado, which is also common in Uruguay. Why is this a thing in the region? Because of Galician, French, Portuguese, and most importantly, Italian immigration. Loan words like champagne and chef from French for example. And Puerto is pware-to. This isn't just a Rio de la Plata thing, but an all-Spanish thing. Saying Puerto as "porto" is Anglicized
Incredibly, you've posted this video the day I was flying back from Buenos Aires! Great summary of the system, keep them coming. Would love to see more on the railways in BA!
Loved the video, thanks for talking about our subway system. The Subte may have it's problems like any other underground train system, but it has a unique and interesting history.
MI PAIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Remember being there for a month one winter in I think 2006 and seeing the wooden doors of the cars on one of the lines swinging back and forth, open and close as the train was moving along.
Make a video about Sao Paulo metro/train/monorail system. Its geting a lot of expansions (like the orange line in construction, or the green line expansion, or the monorails) in the last years and four new subway lines are planed for the next years.
The Once – waterfront tunnel already exists. It was built by the Western Argentine Railway (FFCC Oeste) in 1916 to allow freights to access the docks. The single-track line was once electrified, with a brace of Baldwin-Westinghouse boxcab locos using third rail in the tunnel and overhead wire in the docks. There were several at using it for passenger service, all of which petered out for lack of usage. The tunnel itself is located under the line A tunnel; its conversion for passenger use would require the construction of a parallel bore and several new stations to permit interchange with the Metro.
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You should do a video about the Dominican subway system and transportation in and around the capital city Santo Domingo
thank you very much! we don't hold our network in high esteem so it's been nice and moving when you highlighted its good sides!
Great video ❤
Been waiting this one too. For your own good, don't wait the expansions and the RER on your feet, won't be here any time soon. In the matter Urquiza and B line, the subway was an expansion of the railway made by the same company that own both, and it was intended to operate freight trains (which actually has been done until the fire in the freight underground terminal), but also long distance trains, a project never concluded by the company, and never took in consideration when both got nationalized; at the same time that the metro system. When the state bought the trains capable of running in both systems, the working and operating culture was too apart to reconcile. The overhead power supply put the last nail in that coffin.
I'm off to Argentina 🇦🇷 in February since despite being an Isla Malvinan (Falkland Island) Passport holder I get visa free travel. (Unlike Canada and the USA give me)
I'm really looking forward to discovering the Subte, Tren Surbubnos and the Premetro tramway.
I'm also looking forward to the little train at the end of the world in Tierra del Fuego.
Hopefully will be able to snap some video and photo shots.
took me 2 days to come up with a cool funny comment but really im just very thankful for the opportunity reece!
been waiting for a vid about my beloved system for such a long time and it finally paid off with a banger video 😍
Cool video
Do liima, peru next
Oh boy, my favourite topic, subte de Buenos Aires!! We can resume the lack of expasion to politicians, as always (corruption, favors to buses/truck owners), and bad economic (due to politicians). Of course, politicians wants low cost and highly visible infraestructure, so metrobus was born. Subways are boring and no one sees the tunels being…bored(?)!. BTW, in Skyscrappercity we have fun imagining proposed lines onto an actual map or proposing new lines.
Fun fact, Highlander 2 was filmed in Argentina, and part of it was filmed in the E line, they even used a preliminary subway car made by Materfer.
We also have a failed attemp to put the Sarmiento line into a tunnel (soterramiento del Sarmiento, even it rhymes), the project is surrounded by a lot of corruption, but president Mauricio, the cat, Macri, promised the tunnel and it started being built with. Now we have a tunnel half built, but due to a lack of budget (FMI to the rescue!) it got suspended.
RER is awesome, maybe can be simplified I wish we can build it. And the lack of high speed train…don't get me started!. Your pronunciation of the spanis words is very good!!
love to see you talking about metro (and other public transport systems in Latin America). Buenos Aires and Santiago are really amazing systems that are way ahead of a major part of the American continent. It would also be interesting if you could make a video about the newly built (but currently still closed) line 1 of the Quito metro in Ecuador. It was built by the Madrid Metro company and is totally underground and will hopefully greatly improve Quitos’ highly congested south-north axis that is currently completely clogged despite of 3 different BRT lines, like Ecovía that runs from Quitumbe Bus terminal in the South vía El Recreo, La Marin to Rio Coca in the center-northern part of the city and Trolebus, a BRT that is partly trolleybus that was unfortunately cut back and no longer runs until the northern Terminal Terrestre de Carcelén.
Being part of the city government, I have a couple of footnotes:
1) The mega station under the Obelisk (RER) is not going to happen. The debt taken by President Macri with the IMF was partly justified with this project, but after the reduction of investments in trains, the lack of funds was declared. There is currently no plan to revive the project.
2) There is a second stretch of tramway in CABA, which was closed not many years ago. Coincidentally, it used the same modern cars as the Madrid tram. Clearly the system was not well managed and the cars are currently in our Tram Museum. There are private proposals to revive the system, but again, without a defined plan from the city… and we need trams back.
3) You should see the elevation works of the Mitre line and the tunneling works of the Sarmiento line. Each one deserves its own videos.
I wonder how they are doing and how improvement are going given the inflation and financial crisis they are in, basically collapsing.
I'm a tour guide there, and as far as I know, I'm doing the only regular tour about trains and Subtes in the city. 🙂 Very happy to see this video! And there are more interesting stuff to say about it. Especially the architecture and decoration of the A and C lines, colourful and well preserved from the begining of the 20th century.
NB: as far as I know, those Tokio trains from the 50s are the oldest running in the world for an Underground.
One thing I wish you looked at Reece were the expansion plans for the Subte. I honestly thought they stunk….I find it strange how the master plan for the Subte envisions new lines, rather than doing more line extensions…As it stands now the lines on the system are all relatively short, and the master plan seems to require a lot of line transfers