''Lujerului'' metro station, previously known as ''Armata Poporului'' is a metro station in the

Militari Militari is a district in the western part of Bucharest, in Sector 6. It is home to more than 100,000 inhabitants. In the past a village called "Militari" existed here, but today there are only few houses left from that time. The earliest housing ...

neighborhood of

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

. It is located at the intersection of Lujerului and Iuliu Maniu Avenues, close to the Lujerului road-tunnel, near the Cotroceni Freight Railway Terminal, the Lujerului

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, Mills and Bread Factory, and next to the Cora Lujerului hypermarket. The metro station also services the Plaza Romania mall. It was opened on 19 August 1983 as part of the extension from Eroilor to Industriilor and currently serves M3. The station is also of the central platform design, slightly narrower than

Politehnica Politehnica may refer to: *Politehnica University of Bucharest *Politehnica University of Timișoara *Politehnica metro station Politehnica is a metro station in Bucharest. It is one of the three stations located near the campus of the Universit ...

, also built in

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and featuring a color scheme based on white,

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and shades of gray. The previous name of the station comes from the former name of the easternmost portion of the Iuliu Maniu Avenue, that was formerly known as ''Armata Poporului'' (People's Army). The name of the avenue was changed in 1997 to honor

Iuliu Maniu Iuliu Maniu (; 8 January 1873 – 5 February 1953) was an Austro-Hungarian-born lawyer and Romanian politician. He was a leader of the National Party of Transylvania and Banat before and after World War I, playing an important role in the Un ...

, an inter-war Romanian statesman and to remove all the remaining communist symbolism. However, the name of the metro station stuck, in part because of the reluctance of

Metrorex The Bucharest Metro ( ro, Metroul din București) is an underground rapid transit system that serves Bucharest, the capital of Romania. It first opened for service on 16 November 1979. The network is run by Metrorex. One of two parts of the large ...

to change station names. In 2009, the name of the station was finally changed to ''Lujerului'', the name of a nearby street and road tunnel. The light rail line 41, which goes from

Ghencea Ghencea is a district of the Romanian capital city Bucharest, in Sector 5 (Bucharest), Sector 5. It is home to the famous sports club CSA Steaua București. Nearby districts are Drumul Taberei and Rahova. History Construction of apartment blocks s ...

to Piaţa Presei Libere also passes near this metro station.

References

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