Roma Metro Station
Roma is a subway station on the Linha Verde of the Lisbon Metro , the subway network of the Portuguese capital. The station is located south of the Avenida de Roma / Avenida dos Estados Unidos da América intersection in the Lisbon municipality of Alvalade . The neighboring stations are Alvalade and Areeiro . The station went into operation on June 18, 1972. There is officially, despite a longer walk of 220 meters, a transfer option to the regional and suburban train station Roma-Areeiro .
history
The Roma underground station was put into operation on June 18, 1972 in connection with the opening of the Anjos - Alvalade line. This opening represented the last component of the second expansion phase of the Lisbon metro, which now comprised a network of a total of twenty stations between Sete Rios , Entre Campos and Alvalade .
When it opened, the station itself had two side platforms, each 70 meters long, which were sufficient for operation with four-car trains. The architect Dinis Gomes was responsible for the station design, he also designed the neighboring stations in a similar construction. The Azulejo artist Maria Keil was responsible for the artistic design , who, according to her own statement, was inspired by a brick factory. She chose light blue and white circles on a dark blue background, intersected by diagonal lines.
In the decades that followed, relatively little changed in the station. During the construction of the station, transfer options to other non-urban means of transport were hardly taken into account, so that the suburban and regional train station Roma-Areeiro of Linha de Cintura is located exactly between the two stations Roma and Areeiro . Due to the high costs of a possible tunnel, passengers are still forced to cope with the transfer route along the road. Relocating the underground station, building an intermediate station or other similar solutions also exceed the cost-benefit ratio.
In order to be able to use longer train compositions on the Linha Verde in the future, the Metropolitano de Lisboa decided to extend all the platforms of the stations as part of a general renovation. The construction work at the Roma train station took place in 2006 under the direction of the architect Ana Nascimento , and the platforms were lengthened to the south in order to shorten the transfer route to the suburban train station. The two artists Lourdes de Castro and René Bertholo were commissioned to raise the station to the artistic level of other Lisbon subway stations with regard to the design. Part of the Keil'schen azulejos in the north entrance could be preserved during the renovation. As part of the renovation, the station also received two elevators.
course
At the subway station you can change to the Carris bus lines and to the suburban train lines of the CP Urbanos de Lisboa and Fertagus railway companies ( Lisbon Roma-Areeiro train station ).
| line | course |
|---|---|
| Telheiras - Campo Grande - Alvalade - Roma - Areeiro - Alameda - Arroios - Anjos - Intendente - Martim Moniz - Rossio - Baixa-Chiado - Cais do Sodré |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief information about the station of the Metropolitano de Lisboa, EP ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Architectural description of the station of the Metropolitano de Lisboa, EP ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Area map of the train station (PDF file, 254 KiB)
- [1] [2] Pictures of the station before the renovation in 2006
Coordinates: 38 ° 44 '54.4 " N , 9 ° 8' 28.9" W.