The H Line extends further north. Next Stop: The D Line to the north and Parque Patricios to the south.

The Buenos Aires Subte added a new station yesterday on the “H” Line, a highly-publicized, much-needed, oft-delayed North-South connector that will one day connect Retiro in the North, Nueva Pompeya in the South and intersect every major East-West line on the network.

Up until now, the “Sub” in the H Line’s Subte has been more indicative of its degree of utilization rather than its underground location. Until yesterday, the nascent yellow line only had five stations and ridership was estimated to be 20,000 passengers a day (versus 400,000 for the B Line), but ridership will double immediately with the new Corrientes station, two more stations are under construction (Hospitales and Parque Patricios) and a Chinese group will possibly build another six.

At the inauguration of Corrientes, Mayor Macri took the opportunity to mix two types of green with the new yellow: “Our society is increasingly congested with new vehicles year after year, which represents a problem not only in Argentina, but in many countries worldwide. As promised, we are breaking records with our investment in the Subtes of Buenos Aires.”

The new station, which is a little longer than a football field, has many construction features that enhance its durability like a forced ventilation system to recirculate air. Aesthetically, Corrientes pays homage to composer and tango legend, Enrique Santos Discepolo, in keeping with the law that mandates each H Line station form part of the Subte’s Underground Tango Cultural Circuit. (Full Story in Spanish)

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