TRANSPORT IN BUENOS AIRES

Argentina is one of the most advanced countries in Latin America in terms of transport, with modern facilities, accessible and adapted to the different needs of its inhabitants. In Buenos Aires you will find several alternatives to travel. The Public transportation is an efficient service, and the vast majority are running the 24 hours.
Subways (Metro), buses (collectively, to Buenos Aires), Trains, Taxis, Remises and ships.

SUBWAY OR METRO

The Subway (as it's called in BUENOS AIRES) or Metro, is the faster, more frequent (every 5 minutes) and safest in the city, also one of the most cheap. This service is located through the whole city and you can travel doing different combinations of subway lines.

The ticket is electro-magnetic and it's dispensed in the same station.

Buenos Aires was the first Latin American city with Subways transport ( Since 1913). That decade only 10 countries had underground network: England, France, Turkey, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Germany, USA and Argentina. The current network of BUENOS AIRES consists of 5 lines A, B, C, D and E. The A Line (Alem to Caballito) is the network that preserves ancient and historic trains.

The ticket costs $ 0.70 pesos. Open from 5:30 am to 11:00 pm.

 

URBAN BUS

The urban bus transport or commonly known as "Colectivos" has a network of more than 150 buses lines and more than 15,000 buses flowing through buenos aires streets. A vast majority of buses are customized to receive handicapped passengers, called Units Under Floor ( Piso bajo ) , and it has ramps for passengers in wheelchairs. From 10 years ago has an automatic system to expend tickets inside bus.Introducing coins into the machine, you get a ticket to travel. The bus system is a service with "stops" ( A place where passengers are waiting to take a bus ) spread on the streets with a distance 400 meters among each one of them.

 

RAILWAY

The train is the fastest and most widely used to enter to the city. From the Retiro Train Station you can travel to the B.A. north zone, from Constitution Station ,to the south of Buenos Aires province, and from Lacroze Station to the northwest zone.

In 1917 began circulating the first electric train service, Retiro - Tigre. This service called TBA is the shorter travel in time (45 minutes to Tigre City ) and its wagons has air-conditioning . The most expensive ticket costs 0.95 $ pesos.

Another train is "Tren de la Costa" .It has a tourist profile that reaches the Delta del Tigre (The Great BUENOS AIRES , the noth zone ), traveling across the coastline of Rio de la Plata. It has much demand for tours to Delta or Tigre . We recommend to travel with this service to Tigre, because is the opportunity to know the beautiful north zone. Each station has different attractives, and San Isidro is the great alternative to shop foods , drink a cafe, or handycraft.

Further information www.trendelacosta.com.ar

 

TAXIS

Taxis are easy to identify because they are painted yellow and black (roof), and they are circulating in thousands through BUENOS AIRES. To take a taxi can be done from anywhere in the city, making signs to the driver or through specific "taxi stop places " ( Knowned as "Paradas"), or the Radio Taxi ( To request a taxi by phone ), it's the safer service to travel on taxi .

Currently are circulating over 40,000 taxis by BUENOS AIRES

REMISES

It's a service like cabs but with the difference that cost is calculated only in terms of kilometers traveled, and It's request only through the phone. Also hasn´t the typical yellow- black of the taxis. To long travel is cheaper than a cab.