Metropolitano

Locomotive in the Metropolitano color scheme

Metropolitano train in José Mármol station (2004)

Metropolitano SA was an Argentine rail transport company that operated three suburban rail networks in the greater Buenos Aires area between 1994 and 2007 . Due to the poor quality of the train service offered, the Argentine state withdrew the respective concessions from the company in 2004 and 2007.

history

In 1994 the two bus companies Olmos and Trainmet founded the consortium company Metropolitano, which then applied for the consortia of the then privatized state railway company Ferrocarriles Argentinos and ultimately won the bid for the Belgrano Sur , San Martín and Roca networks . Subsequently, a subsidiary was founded for each rail network to be operated, Transportes Metropolitano San Martín (TMS), Transportes Metropolitano Roca (TMR) and Transportes Metropolitano Belgrano Sur (TMB). On April 1, 1994, Metropolitano began operating on the Retiro - Pilar line (San Martín network), and the other two networks followed on May 1, 1994. In 1999 the entrepreneur Sergio Taselli bought the company.

Although the company received high subsidies from the Argentine state, poor performance, persistent delays and poor maintenance of the vehicle fleet were repeatedly reasons for numerous complaints from passengers and contractual penalties on the part of the state. As a result, in 2004, after numerous traffic accidents, some of them serious, the concession for the operation of the Retiro - Pilar (San Martín) line was canceled and handed over to the provisional state railway company UGOFE . After a violent demonstration by angry passengers at the Constitución train station on May 15, 2007, the Argentine state withdrew the concession for the two other suburban railway networks (Roca and Belgrano Sur) and also handed them over to the state railway company UGOFE.

Lines

Metropolitano operated the following lines in total:

network	Train run	Concession period
Roca	Constitución - La Plata (via Quilmes ) Constitución - Ezeiza - Cañuelas Constitución - Alejandro Korn Constitución - Berazategui - Temperley Temperley - Haedo Bosques - Gutiérrez	May 1, 1994 May 22, 2007
San Martín	Retiro - Pilar	May 1, 1994 January 7, 2005
Belgrano Sur	Puente Alsina - Aldo Bonzi Buenos Aires - González Catán Buenos Aires - Marinos del Belgrano	May 1, 1994 May 22, 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Antonio Rossi: Una empresa que nació en los años 90 , (A company that was founded in the 1990s), Clarín, May 16, 2007
2. ↑ Cledis Candelaresi: Los que viven del subsidio , (Those who live on subsidies), Página Doce, May 16, 2007
3. ↑ Laura Serra and Gustavo Carabajal: Hubo numerosos alertas que no se atendieron , (There were many references that were ignored ), La Nación, May 17, 2007
4. ↑ Metropolitano, una compañía con reiteradas sanciones , (Metropolitano, a company with numerous sanctions), Terra, May 16, 2007
5. ↑ Decreto 798/2004 ( Memento of the original of March 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ Noche de furia en Plaza Constitución: pasajeros incendiaron varios vagones , (Night of violence in the Constitución train station: passengers set fire to several trains), Clarín, September 20, 2006
7. ^ Caos y furia en Constitución por el atraso en los trenes , (Chaos and violence at Constitución station due to train delays), Clarín, May 16, 2007