Aeroporto Metro Station

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View of the side platforms of the underground station
The caricaturist António designed 50 different comics that adorn the station in various places. Here is a caricature of the famous Fado singer Amália Rodrigues .
Mezzanine floor of the subway station

Aeroporto is a metro station on the Linha Vermelha of the Lisbon Metro , the subway network of the Portuguese capital . The subway station, named after the Lisbon airport Aeroporto da Portela , is located directly below the same and is the terminus of Linha Vermelha. The underground station went into operation on July 17, 2012 with the opening of the northern extension of Linha Vermelha between Oriente station and Portela Airport . Since Aeroporto is the terminus of the Linha Vermelha trains, Encarnação is the only neighboring station.

history

Construction work for the extension of the Linha Vermelha from Oriente train station to the airport began in December 2007. The construction of the line and the train station were defended by both the operating company and the Portuguese Ministry of Transport, despite an originally planned closure of the airport in 2017, as the airport site is to be used for the construction of new housing developments in the future. With the abandonment of the plans for a new airport, these doubts have become superfluous. The extension was originally scheduled to go into operation in 2011. Due to legal proceedings of unsuccessful construction companies, it was delayed by around one and a half years to July 2012. The cost of building the 3.3 kilometer stretch between Aeroporto and Oriente amounts to 218 million euros.

The subway station was designed by Leopoldo de Almeida Rosa, and he was heavily based on the usual designs of the Lisbon subway stations. The two side platforms, 105 meters long and up to 4.20 meters wide, are roofed over by a lower mezzanine floor, two middle mezzanines and a central, top mezzanine. On the top mezzanine floor are the ticket machines and counters, shops and passenger information. There are two exits as well as an elevator to the road surface and a direct pedestrian tunnel to the airport terminal. The subway station itself is located between the airport arrivals area and the car rental services, at a 90 degree angle to the airport runways.

With the construction of the underground, the airport, which opened in 1942, received a rail link for the first time. Until then, only Carris' bus and express bus lines guaranteed a connection to downtown Lisbon and the surrounding area. The operating company of the metro, Metropolitano de Lisboa, EPE , specifies a travel time of five minutes between the airport train station and Oriente train station , where there are connections to various long-distance and regional transport lines of the Comboios de Portugal .

Cartoons

The Portuguese painter Paula Rego was originally asked for the artistic design, but this could not be realized. The operating company then announced the involvement of the Portuguese cartoonist António . 50 different caricatures of Portuguese personalities, mainly from the 20th century, can be seen on the platform walls. The majority of the characters shown are Portuguese actors and artists.

course

At the underground station you can change to the Carris bus lines .

line course
Aeroporto  - Encarnação  - Moscavide  - Oriente  - Cabo Ruivo  - Olivais  - Chelas  - Bela Vista  - Olaias  - Alameda  - Saldanha  - São Sebastião

Web links

Commons : Aeroporto Metro Station  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ana Henriques and Inês Boaventura: Prazos para a chegada do metro de Lisboa ao Aeroporto descarrilaram. In: Público . August 27, 2010, accessed March 31, 2013 .
  2. ^ A b Daniel Lam: Metro serve aeroporto por seis anos. (No longer available online.) In: Diário de Notícias . November 4, 2010, formerly in the original ; accessed on March 31, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.dn.pt  
  3. ^ José António Fonseca: Metro chega ao aeroporto de Lisboa terça-feira. RTP Notícias , July 15, 2012, accessed March 31, 2013 .
  4. ↑ a b Architectural description of the underground station. Metropolitano de Lisboa, EPE, accessed March 31, 2013 .
  5. ^ Fernanda Ribeiro: Metro quer ir até à Linha de Sintra. In: Público. March 25, 2004, accessed March 31, 2013 .
  6. ↑ As caricaturas de antónio na nova estação do metro no aeroporto de li ... Accessed on September 19, 2018 .

Coordinates: 38 ° 46 '8.9 "  N , 9 ° 7' 42.9"  W.