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The Buenos Aires Subway Company (Sbase) had postponed the opening of envelopes for the tender of engineering studies of Line F, which would go to Barracas Palermo, by mid-month. The information was confirmed to LA NACION by Sbase sources, which indicated that the measure was taken to ensure that there is a good quantity of bidders. The new branch will have a central role in the connectivity and intermodality of trips in the city, since eight of its 13 stations will be a combination and will have two transhipment centers in Constitución and Palermo. The future line would start underground from Barracas under the Frondizi highway (known as July 9 south) to Constitución. Then it would continue along Juan de Garay Avenue until its intersection with Solís Street and there a curve would begin until it was aligned with Entre Ríos Avenue. It would continue along Callao until the intersection with Pacheco de Melo Street and, at that point, it would begin to orientate itself towards the axis of Las Heras avenue to Plaza Italia and then under Santa Fe to Puente Pacífico, in the transfer center of Palermo. Line F (orange) will have 13 stations The original trace sanctioned by local law 670 only provided that it would reach Plaza Italia. The stops will be California, Suárez, Constitución (combination with line C), Entre Ríos (combination with line E), Independencia, Congreso (combination with line A), Corrientes (combination with line B), Córdoba (combination with line E), Las Heras (combination with line H), Hospital Rivadavia, Salguero, Plaza Italia and Palermo (both in combination with line D). As for the design, it is aimed at the rationalization, typing and industrialization of the stations. For the first time in Argentina, TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine) technology will be used for the construction of a subway line. This is the use of a tunneling machine that, so far, was used only in hydraulic projects, such as the second emissary of the Vega stream. Eduardo de Montmollin, president of Sbase, estimates that the work will begin to be built in 2021 and that, if things go well, it will be inaugurated in 2027. Its cost will be enormous: 2000 million dollars, which should be financed by international credit organizations . |
