Portal de Usme is one of the terminal stations in the TransMilenio mass-transit system of Bogotá, Colombia, opened in the year 2000.
Portal de Usme | |||||||||||
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| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Avenida Caracas with Calle 63 sur Usme neighborhood | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Caracas Sur - Usme | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | August 6, 2001 | ||||||||||
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Location edit
Portal de Usme is located in the extreme south of Bogotá, specifically on Avenida Caracas south of the La Picota national penitentiary.
History edit
In 2001, a few months after the opening of the system, the Portal de Usme was opened as the second terminal station in the system.
After a lawsuit from a passenger complaining of lack of handicapped access on the feeder routes at the station, the fleet of feeder buses was renovated to accommodate this service in 2005.
On February 2, 2002, police thwarted an attempt to use dynamite against the station by disarming six sticks of the explosive.
Station services edit
Old trunk services edit
| Kind | Routes | Frequency |
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| Current |  |
Every 3 minutes on average |
| Express |     |
Every 2 minutes on average |
| Express Dominical |  |
Every 3 or 4 minutes on average |
Current trunk services edit
| Type | Northern Routes | Western Route | |||||
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| Local |
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| Express Every day All Day |
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| Express Monday through Saturday All day |
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K54 | |||||
| Express Monday through Friday Morning rush |
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| Ending routes | |||||||
| Local | 3 | ||||||
| Express Every day All Day |
H75 | ||||||
| Express Monday through Saturday All day |
H20 H54 H72 H17 | ||||||
Feeder routes edit
The terminal operates the following feeder routes:
- 3-2 Santa Librada loop
- 3-3 Chuniza loop
- 3-4 Alfonso López loop
- 3-5 Usminia loop
- 3-6 Danubio loop
- 3-8 Virrey loop
- 3-9 Marichuela loop
- 3-10 Usme-Centro loop
- 3-11 La Fiscala loop
- 3-12 Compostela loop
- 3-13 Nebraska loop
- 3-14 El Uval loop
Inter-city service edit
Due to its location near the mountainous south of the city, the station does not have inter-city service.